Mailing address
One Brattle Square 517
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Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Nussaibah Younis
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-384-8072
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: nussaibah@gmail.com
Experience
Nussaibah Younis is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Durham, and her research focuses on the impact of state weakness on Iraqi foreign policymaking since 2003 and Iraq's post-war state structure. She has published on the relationship between sectarianism and Iraq's post-war electoral system and has written commentaries on current affairs for the Guardian newspaper.
Previously, Nussaibah worked with an entrepreneur to start up a now flourishing brand strategy consultancy. As part of her work in business and in academia, Nussaibah has lived all over the Arab world, including Amman, Beirut, Cairo, and Dubai. She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Modern History and English.
May 2, 2013
"Why Maliki Must Go"
Op-Ed, New York Times
By Nussaibah Younis, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...Mr. Maliki, who took office in 2006, had a successful first term, he has squandered the opportunity to heal the nation in his second term, which began in 2010. He has taken a hard sectarian line on security and political challenges. He has resisted integrating Sunnis into the army. He has accused senior Sunni politicians of being terrorists, hounded them from power and lost the cooperation of the Sunni community. The result: the political bargain that had sustained the fragile Iraqi state broke down."
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October 29, 2012
"Time to Get Tough on Iraq"
Op-Ed, New York Times
By Nussaibah Younis, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...Mr. Maliki is not making an irrational choice in allowing assistance for the Assad regime next door. He is supporting an Iranian regime that brokered his own return to power, while also guarding against the possibility that the rise of a Sunni government in Syria could reignite the Iraqi civil war. So it is up to the United States to change Mr. Maliki's calculations to bring them in line with American interests."
