Harith Hasan
Harith Hasan is an associate researcher and academic director at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha and the author of “Shi’i Clerical Authority in Iraq: The Neo-Traditional Marji’yya and the Transformation of Political Order” (2026). His research focuses on state-society relations in the Middle East and questions of identity, institutions and political economy. He previously served as a nonresident senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center and as a visiting research fellow at both the Central European University and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Latest from Harith Hasan
The Ambiguities of Solidarity at Khamenei’s Funeral in Iraq
Expressions of reverence, grief and devotion will abound at the supreme leader's funeral in Iraq, but the Axis of Resistance’s messaging simplifies a much more complex reality.
Where Iraq and Syria Meet, Unrest Follows
Why do Sunni jihadists of the Islamic State, Iran-backed Shiite militants, and Kurdish militants of PKK and allied groups still find in the Iraq-Syria border a space to operate and consolidate their positions vis-à-vis their rivals? The answer lies in the disintegration of the apparatuses of the central state.