Intellect

Jacqueline S. Ismael is professor of social work at the University of Calgary and is co-editor of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. She has published extensively on Canadian social policy and international social welfare, including The Canadian Welfare State: Evolution and Transition (1989) and International Social Welfare in a Changing World (1996). She has also written articles and monographs on social change in the Middle East and co-authored a number of works with Tareq Y. Ismael, including The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon (1998), and The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics (2004). Her latest book is with William Haddad, entitled Barriers to Reconciliation: Case Studies on Iraq and the Palestine-Israel Conflict (2006).