What Does it Mean to be Iraqi?

A public meeting of the Iraq Working Group

What does it mean to be Iraqi? As sectarian violence in Iraq continues to rise, many observers are wondering if the forces that divide Iraqis are stronger than those that unify them.

USIP's panel "What Does it Mean to be Iraqi? The Politics of Identity in Iraq" will explore the identities that have defined Iraqi politics in the past, analyze Iraq's current highly sectarian climate, and consider the possibility of a cross-cutting "Iraqi" identity that could ultimately form the basis of a viable, stable polity.

Speakers

• Reidar Visser
  Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
  http://www.historiae.org
• Eric Davis
  Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University
• Phebe Marr
  Former Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace
• Michael Rubin
  Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
• Nabil Al-Tikriti, Discussant
  Assistant Professor at the University of Mary Washington
• Patricia Karam, Moderator
  Senior Program Officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace

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