Hassan Mneimneh: Iraq: Past, Present, and Pivotal Future

https://westminster-institute.org/events/iraq-past-present-and-pivotal-future/

Hassan Mneimneh is Principal at Middle East  Alternatives in Washington DC. He is Scholar at the Middle East  Institute and Contributing Editor at Fikra Forum at the Washington  Institute for Near East Policy.

He was previously Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall  Fund of the United States (GMF), Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute,  Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Director  of the Center for Global Engagement at the Institute for American  Values. Between 1999 and 2008, Mneimneh assumed leading functions at the  Iraq Memory Foundation, the Iraq Foundation, and the Iraq Research and  Documentation Project.

Mneimneh specializes in the affairs of the Middle East, North Africa,  and the wider Islamic world with a particular emphasis on radicalism  and factionalism. In previous capacities, he has focused on the  significance of socio-political and cultural developments in the MENA  region to US and European policies; assessed civil reaction to  radicalizing tendencies in Muslim societies; and studied the evolution,  record, and prospects of radical Islamist formations worldwide. He has  written, in English, Arabic, and French, on political, cultural,  historical, and intellectual questions concerning the Arab and Muslim  worlds.