Casa Árabe publishes Issue nº 13 of “Awraq” with a monograph dedicated to “Iraq at a Crossroads.”

The main section of this issue for the first half of 2016 is a selection of presentations given at the seminar “Iraq at a Crossroads,” held on December 9, 2014 at Casa Árabe, later published in English in 2015.

It includes the following: Daesh: A long decade of Sunni alienation in Iraq and the Middle East (Myriam Benraad); Iraq After ISIS: Shia militias and Iranian influence (Hayder al-Khoei); The Kurdish Question and the Fight Against the Islamic State (Wladimir van Wilgenburg); Iran’s Policy Towards Post-Saddam Iraq (Mohammad Ali Shabani); Daesh in Syria: Great potential for expansion (Fabrice Balanche); Turkey’s Foreign Policy Towards Iraq (Nur Cetinoglu Harunoglu); Bombing from the Rearguard?: An evaluation of the United States’ bilateral strategy towards ISIL (Jean-Loup Samaan); The EU’s Divergent Strategy for an Iraq Undergoing Change (Oz Hassan); The Humanitarian Disaster in Iraq: Beyond the atrocities of Daesh (Pedro Rojo).

This main section will be complemented by two unpublished articles on Russia in the Middle East: How to manage an intricate path (Maxim A. Suchkov) and The Countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Iraq (Luciano Zaccara).

In the “Miscellanea” section, there is an article titled How Does the Islamic State Withstand and Fight Against Operation Inherent Resolve? (Omar Ashour).

Rounding off this monographic issue are reviews of a book by Ángeles Ramírez, La alteridad imaginada: el pánico moral y la construcción de lo musulmán en España y Francia (Otherness Imagined: Moral panic and the construction of what is Muslim in Spain and France, reviewed by Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste) and another book by Miguel Hernando De Larramendi, Irene González González and Bernabé López García, titled El Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura. Orígenes y evolución de la diplomacia pública española hacia el mundo árabe (The Spanish-Arab Institute of Culture: Origins and development of Spanish public diplomacy towards the Arab world, reviewed by Juan José Vagni). Last of all, there is a review of Wassim Nasr’s Etat islamique, le fait accompli (The Islamic State, Fait Accompli, reviewed by Barah Mikaïl).