The Future of the Middle East and Healing Narratives through Storytelling

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

brahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) and a summer school professor of Conflict Management and Analysis at Charles University, Prague. He obtained his doctorate in Modern History at University of Oxford, completing a thesis on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, part of which was plagiarized by the British government in the lead up to the 2003 Iraq War, otherwise known as the “Dodgy Dossier.” He is co-author of Iraq’s Armed Forces: An Analytical History (2008), and The Modern History of Iraq (2017), and A Concise History of the Middle East (2018).