Research & Publications

• Books
  • Memories of State: Politics and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq
  • Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory, and Popular Culture
  • Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941
  • Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq
• Articles
  • · Iraqi Politics & Society
    • "A Sectarian Middle East?" International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40 (Nov 2008)
    • "Executive Summary: Rebuilding a Non-Sectarian Iraq," Strategic Insights, Volume VI, Issue 6 (Dec 2007)
    • "Rebuilding a Non-Sectarian Iraq," Strategic Insights, Volume VI, Issue 6 (Dec 2007)
    • "The Puzzle of Federalism in Iraq," Middle East Report, 247 (Summer 2008)
    • "The Formation of Political Identities in Ethnically Divided Societies: Implications for a Democratic Transition in Iraq," (English | Arabic) Newsletter of the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), 2/1 (Spring 2007)
    • "The New Iraq: The Uses of Historical Memory," The Journal of Democracy, 16, 3 (July 2005)
    • "History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Iraq," Orbis, 49, 2 (Spring 2005)
    • "Domino Democracy: The Challenges to United Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Iraq," Patriotism and Common Sense, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
    • "USIP Special Report: Strategies for Promoting Democracy in Iraq," (English | Arabic) United States Institute of Peace, Special Report 152 (Oct 2005)
    • "The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Iraq," Commemorations: The Politics of Memory and Identity, Princeton University Press, 1994
    • "State-Building in Iraq During the Iran-Iraq War & the Gulf Crisis," The Internationalization of Communal Strife, 1993
    • "Iraq's Sunni Clergy Enter the Fray," Religion in the News, 7, 3 (Winter 2005)
    • "Democracy's Prospects in Iraq," Foreign Policy Research Institute, June 30, 2004
    • "History for the Many or History for the Few? The Historiography of the Iraqi Working Class," Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East, State University of New York Press, 1994
    • "Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq," Foreign Policy Research Institute, March 27, 2003
    • "National Assembly Elections: Prelude to Democracy or Instability?" Middle East Policy (Spring 2005)
    • The Iraqi Revolution of 1958," Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions
  • · Religion & Politics in the Middle East
    • "Reflections on Religion and Politics in Post-Ba^cthist Iraq," Newsletter of the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), 3/1 (Spring 2008)
    • "A Sectarian Middle East," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Fall 2008)
    • "Ideology, Social Class, and Islamic Radicalism in Modern Egypt," From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, 1984
    • "The Concept of Revival and the Study of Islam in Politics," The Islamic Impulse", 1987
    • "Religion Against The State" Religious Resurgence: Contemporary Cases in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, 1987.
  • · The Politics of Oil
    • "The Political Economy of the Arab Oil-Producing Nations: Convergence With Western Interests," Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1979
  • · The United States & the Middle East
    • "Representations of the Middle East at American Worlds' Fairs 1876-1904," The United States and the Middle East: Cultural Encounters, 2002
  • · Global Citizenship
    • "Global Citizenship: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives," Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times: Rethinking Theory and Practice, 2008
• Commentary
  • "Go, Stay or Rebuild?: The Next President, the Next Stage in Iraq," The Star Ledger, June 29, 2008
  • "Baghdad's Buried Treasure," The New York Times, April 16, 2003
  • "Eric Davis comments on Iraq's new Provincial Powers Law," The Jim Lehrer News Hour, June 8, 2006
  • "Many Kurds Support Iraq, Not Independence," The Star Ledger, December 16, 2007
  • "In Iraq, Democracy is the Only Answer," Newhouse News Service, September 19,2006
  • "Iraq in the Mind of Seymour Hersh," The Daily Targum, November 2, 2005
  • "History Suggests an Iraqi Democracy is Possible," The Daily Star, July 1, 2004
  • "What Went Wrong in Iraq?," The Bergen Record, October 18, 2004
  • "The Bhutto Assassination and U.S. Foreign Policy, The Record, December 31, 2007
• Interviews
  • "Sectarian Identities in Iraq"
• Lectures
  • "John F. Kennedy Library Lecture on Iraq"
  • "In Iraq, Democracy is the Only Answer," UCLA Center For Near Eastern Studies, October 25, 2006
• Media Appearances
  • Jim Lehrer News Hour (Video | Audio | Transcript), December 12, 2006
  • Jim Lehrer News Hour (Video | Audio | Transcript),October 30, 2006
  • Press TV Program (Video), July 29, 2009
• Youth Attitudes in Iraq
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