Not since the Islamic revolution of 1979 has the Middle East witnessed a political upheaval of the magnitude of the Iraqi election held on January 30. The Shia majority has now come decisively to power in the new parliament, and it may make the Kurds its junior partner. The core of the new government consists […]
Juan Cole
Juan Cole is a professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam, and he maintains a blog on Middle Eastern and Iraqi affairs called Informed Comment.