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null Iraq Betwixt and Between: Talk by Ambassador al-Istrabadi

Date: January 29, 2020 to January 29, 2020
Time: 1200-1330
Location: Glasgow Hall, Room 109

On 30 January 2020, at 1200 hours, the NSA Department will host Ambassador (AMB) Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi. He is the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he is also professor of the practice of international law and diplomacy at the Maurer School of Law and the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. From 2004 to 2010, the ambassador represented Iraq at the United Nations. Previously, AMB Al-Istrabadi was legal advisor to the Iraqi foreign minister during the negotiations for UN Security Council Resolution 1546, which recognized Iraq’s re-assertion of its sovereignty. In 2003–04, he was principal legal drafter of Iraq's interim constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law, and he was advisor on constitutional and legal affairs to Dr. Adnan Pachachi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council Presidency.

Al-Istrabadi’s book, The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications, edited with Sumit Ganguly, was published in 2018 by Brookings. His monograph, The Iraqi Supreme Criminal Tribunal: National and International Dimensions, assessing the trials of prominent members of Iraq’s previous regime, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Ambassador al-Istrabadi is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.