Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

Fanar Haddad

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 København S
- fanar.haddad@hum.ku.dk
- https://tors.ku.dk

My research focusses on the politics of the modern Middle East and can be split into three overlapping areas: Iraqi politics and governance, identity formation and identity politics, and finally Shia Islamism. Much of my published work has focussed on sectarian identity formation, sectarian relations, modern Shi’ism, identity politics, religious nationalism and Iraqi politics. I have an especially strong interest in Sunni-Shi’a relations and how these have shaped, and have been shaped by, national politics, regional geopolitics and transnational networks. I am also interested in theories of the post-Weberian state particularly in relation to hybrid governance and hybrid security actors. I am currently working on Shi'a Islamism as part of an IRFD-funded research project led by colleagues at Aarhus University: "Bringing in the Other Islamists – comparing Arab Shi’a and Sunni Islamism(s) in a sectarianized Middle East."

Selected publications

Published
Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shia Relations in the Modern Arab World
Haddad, Fanar, 2020, Hurst Publishers.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Published
Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity
Haddad, Fanar, 2011
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Published
"Sectarianism" and its Discontents in the Study of the Middle East
Haddad, Fanar, 2017, In: Middle East Journal. 71, 3, p. 363-382
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Sectarian Identity and National Identity in the Middle East
Haddad, Fanar, 2020, In: Nations and Nationalism. 26, 1, p. 123-137 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Published
A Sectarian Awakening: Reinventing Sunni Identity in the 21st Century
Haddad, Fanar, 2020, Iraq After the Invasion: People and Politics in a State of Conflict. Sakai, K. & Marfleet, P. (eds.). Routledge, 26 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Anti-Sunnism and Anti-Shi'ism: Minorities, Majorities and the Question of Equivalence
Haddad, Fanar, 2021, In: Mediterranean Politics. 26, 4, p. 498-504
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
From Existential Struggle to Political Banality: The Politics of Sect in Post-2003 Iraq
Haddad, Fanar, 2020, In: Review of Faith and International Affairs. 18, 1, p. 70-86 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Published
Reconsidering the Relation between "Sectarianism" and Nationalism in the Middle East
Haddad, Fanar, 2019, Religion and Nationalism in Asia. Shani, G. & Kibe, T. (eds.). Routledge, 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Published
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units: A Hybrid Actor in a Hybrid State
Haddad, Fanar, 2020, United Nations University Press. 39 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Report › Commissioned › peer-review
Published
Social Division in Iraq: Ahl al-Shiqaq wa-l-Nifaq?
Haddad, Fanar, 2020, The Routledge Handbook on Persian Gulf Politics. Kamrava, M. (ed.). Routledge, 15 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Published
The Iraqi people will pay the price of Iran-US rivalry, again
Haddad, Fanar, 2020, In: Al Jazeera.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article › Communication
Published
How Tahrir gave birth to a new Iraq
Haddad, Fanar, 2019, Middle East Eye.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Iraq protests: There's no going back to the status quo ante
Haddad, Fanar, 2019, Middle East Eye.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Iraq's protests and the reform farce
Haddad, Fanar, 2019, Al-Jazeera English.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
One thing Obama got right: They'll have to share the Middle East
Haddad, Fanar, 2019, Al-Jazeera English.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Shuha Aidentiti wo Datsu-Shinpika Sura: "Shuhashugi" to Chuto Kenkyu
Haddad, Fanar, 2019, Gendai Chuto no Shuha Mondai: Seiji Tairitsu No ‘Shuha-Ka’ to "Shin-Reisen". Sakai, K. (ed.). Koyo Shobou
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
Published
The Diminishing Relevance of the Sunni-Shia Divide
Haddad, Fanar, 2019, Project on Middle East Political Science.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research
Published
The Waning Relevance of the Sunni-Shi'a Divide
Haddad, Fanar, 2019
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research
Published
Essential Readings: Iraq
Haddad, Fanar, 2018, Jadaliyya.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Education
Published
Iraq: Atrocity as Political Capital
Haddad, Fanar, 2016, Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. Conley-Zilkic, B. (ed.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Published
Iraq, 15 years later: The fixation on 2003 does a disservice to Iraq and its peoples
Haddad, Fanar, 2018, Middle East Eye.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Ontologies of Sectarian Identity: The Many Layers of Sunni-Shi'a Relations
Haddad, Fanar, 2018, LSE Middle East Centre.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Post-2003 Iraq: Sectarian Relations Before "Sectarianization"
Haddad, Fanar, 2017, Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East. Hashemi, N. & Postel, D. (eds.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Published
Shia-Centric State Building and Sunni Rejection in Post-2003 Iraq
Haddad, Fanar, 2017, Beyond Sunni and Shia: Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East. Wehrey, F. (ed.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Published
Why 'Artificiality' Fails to Explain Iraq's Woes
Haddad, Fanar, 2017, Current History Inc.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
'Shia Forces', 'Iraqi Army' and the perils of sect-coding
Haddad, Fanar, 2016, Jadaliyya.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Competing Victimhoods in a Sectarian Landscape
Haddad, Fanar, 2016, Jadaliyya.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
'Marked' for Exclusion: The Problem of Pluralism, State-Building and Communal Identities in Iraq and the Arab World
Haddad, Fanar, 2014, The Middle East Institute. Washington, DC.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Secular Sectarians
Haddad, Fanar, 2014, The Middle East Institute. Washington, DC.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Iraq's Sectarian Inheritance
Haddad, Fanar, 2013, Foreign Policy.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research
Published
Iraq’s Protests: can a “Sunni Spring” turn into an “Iraqi Spring”?
Haddad, Fanar, 2013, Foreign Policy.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
Sectarian Relations and Sunni Idenity in Post-Civil War Iraq
Haddad, Fanar, 2013, Sectarian Politics in the Persian Gulf. Potter, L. (ed.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Published
Sectarian Relations in Arab Iraq: Contextualizing the Civil War of 2006-2007
Haddad, Fanar, 2013, In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 40, 2, p. 115-138
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Published
Sunni-Shia Relations After the Iraq War
Haddad, Fanar, 2013, United States Institute of Peace Press.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Commissioned › peer-review
Published
The Language of Anti-Shiism
Haddad, Fanar, 2013, Foreign Policy.
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Published
An Undiscovered Archive? Online Video Sharing, Alternative Narratives and the Documentation of History
Haddad, Fanar, 2012, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge.
Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
Published
Political Awakenings in an Artificial State: Iraq, 1914-1920
Haddad, Fanar, 2012, In: International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. 6, 1, p. 3-26
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Published
The Terrorists of Today are the Heroes of Tomorrow: the anti-British and anti-American Insurgencies in Iraqi History
Haddad, Fanar, 2008, In: Small Wars and Insurgencies. 19, 4, p. 451-483
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Published
Fitting Baghdad In
Haddad, Fanar & Rizvi, S., 2007, An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of Federal Democracy?. Visser, R. & Stansfield, G. (eds.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

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