Sawsan al-Assaf

Sawsan Al-Assaf was a senior lecturer at Baghdad University until 2010; she held several research and administrative positions, such as head of the political department in the Centre of Dar al-Iraq for Future Studies, head of Woman’s Affairs Department at Somar Organisation for Development and member of the consultation team at Iraqi Centre for Strategic Studies, (Amman). She worked with many local, regional and global research organizations and universities by participating and presenting papers in different conferences and workshops. She was Senior Visiting Fellow to different Arab and European universities, the International Centre for Future Strategic Studies, Cairo (2006); London School of Economics, (LSE), Anthropology department 2008; the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, Uni. of London (2008), the National University of Ireland, the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway: Republic of Ireland 2009 and the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, Uni. of London (2010). She also participated in different Arab and International projects about Iraq such us SRF, CARA, and SAR. She is a founding member of the International Committee for Solidarity with Iraqi Academics (Qatar), a member of the Arab Association for Political Science (Cairo). Iraqi Association for Political Science (Baghdad), and a member of the Woman Solidarity with Independence and Unified Iraq organisation (London).
Her main interests are issues of democracy, US strategy towards the Middle East, International relations, human rights and Iraqi women. She has published (3 books in Arabic) and many articles in her field in Arabic and English. Co-author of the International research; http://issuu.com/nova_social/docs/searching_for_peace_in_iraq
She is a board member of the Peace Building-Academy for the Middle East, Spain & Beirut. Currentely working as a member of research team on the project: Iraq’s Intelligentsia under Siege: 1980-2013, Chicago University.