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Iraq: Anatomy of a Broken State

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An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.

Aimen's in the thick of it this week so isn't able to appear on the show. Sitting in for him is Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli researcher and analyst, and a doctoral student at Princeton University. During field research in Iraq in 2023, she was kidnapped by Kata'ib Hezbollah and held in captivity for over two years, suffering torture and solitary confinement.

In what we hope will be the first of many appearances on Conflicted, Elizabeth discusses:

 Saddam Hussein’s faith campaign and the rise of Shia religious politics in Iraq

 The Sadrist movement in Iraq and Muqtada al-Sadr

 The politicisation of sectarian identity in post-2003 Iraq

 Iraqi militias as criminal-political enterprises engaged in in theft, extortion, oil smuggling, and dollar smuggling

 The difference between Iraqi militias and Lebanese Hezbollah

 The impact of militia rule on ordinary civilian life

 Iraq’s extreme inequality despite its oil and gas wealth

 The 2003 Iraq War and the debate over American responsibility

 Iraqi elite agency and the failures of Iraq’s political class

 The 2010 Iraqi election crisis and Nouri al-Maliki’s return to power

 The Iraqi constitution and the failure of constitutional democracy

 Iraq’s dependence on oil revenues and the Strait of Hormuz

 The impact of the current Iran war on Iraq’s economy

 Iranian attacks on Iraqi oil exports and oil tankers

 The U.S. military presence in Iraq after ISIS

 American influence over Iraqi prime ministerial politics

 Nouri al-Maliki, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, and Ali al-Zaidi

 Fa’iq Zaidan and the power of Iraq’s judiciary

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Produced and edited by Thomas Small.
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