On the morning of April 9, 2003, the Sunni Arabs in Iraq woke up to a reality they had not played a role in shaping for the first time in their modern history. The scene of American tanks parading through the streets of Baghdad marked the closure of a significant…

Yazidis Scattered Between Missing, Displaced, and Migrants Searching for a Homeland Beside a small tent set up on the ruins of his destroyed mud house in the al-Qahtaniyah district, south of Sinjar (125 km northwest of Mosul), 72-year-old Khalaf sits for hours every day, gazing at the scattered remnants of…

The Salafism ideology has tightened the noose on Sufism, depriving them of the benefits they previously obtained through the endowments of certain shrines attributed to righteous saints. This has diminished the influence of their spiritual leaders within society. However, how did the Sufis embark on a journey towards politics and…