Arab Shia Communities in Transition: A Peacemaking Opportunity for the International Community?

‘Afghanistan: How Iran and its allies are relying on Soleimani’s deals with the Taliban
The Afghan militants promised Tehran the Shia will be protected. If they break that promise, Iraqi paramilitaries vow to defend their fellow Shia.’

Middle East Eye, 20 August, 2021

‘Heir of the Prophets, Veneration of Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī and the Socio-Religious Positioning of Twelver Shiism’
Hadi Qazwini
Islamic Studies, 60/3 (2021).

The Clergy and the Modern Middle East
Shi’i Political Activism in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon
M Kalantari
Bloomsbury, 2021

‘Iraq’s Marsh Arabs battle drought and pollution
Posted October 14, 2021
On an island surrounded by the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in southern Iraq, Raad Hamid Hashem rises with the sun to milk his herd of water buffalo. But thanks to drought, this summer has been tough for Hashem. Soraya Ali reports.’

‘Dynamic Quietism and the Consolidation of the ḥawza ʿilmīyya of Qum during the Pahlavi Era’
Mohammed Mesbahi,
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,
20 October, 2021