Intellect

Tareq Y. Ismael is professor of political science at the University of Calgary, Canada. He also serves as president of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies and is author and editor of numerous works on Iraq and the Middle East, including Iraq: The Human Cost of History (2003), The Iraqi Predicament: People in the Quagmire of Power Politics (2004), The Communist Movement in the Arab World (2005), The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party in Iraq (2008), Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change (2010), Islam in the Eyes of the West: Images and Realities in an Age of Terror (2010) and Cultural Cleansing: Why Museums were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered (2010).