Researcher, representative and columnist. Former senior advisor to the Kurdistan/Iraq Parliament. He has published extensively on Sino-Iraqi relations, Kurdish politics, and Iraq’s policy with American, European, and Gulf tanks. He earned his PhD from University College Cork in Ireland.
The Shia victimization narrative asserts that the configuration of the Iraqi political state will have to change to end the marginalization of Shias and, by characterizing them as a majority, also alludes to their democratic right to govern. While Hassan Allawi aligns the genealogy of this marginalization with the mix of Percy Cox, the first British high commissioner in British-dominated Iraq, and Abdul-Rahman al-Naqib, the first Iraqi and Sunni prime minister whose government was established last October 1920, claims that the colonial regime deprived Iraqi Shiites of their democratic rights. Chinese and Iraqi Shia narratives rhyme in many ways. Accusing the West of having been humiliated and victimized, of not exercising its rights and not being in power, in the case of the Iraqi Shiites, or of having reshaped its history, in the case of China.
As relations between Iraq and China expand across the board, there is little room left to focus on percentage narratives and global visions. As elites from both sides increasingly interact and exchange visits, history, non-unusual threats, and narratives emerge. As both sides are located in the Global South, they present no oddities with respect to the dominant global [Western] powers. Chinese and Iraqi Shiites are strongly influenced by their political and ancient memory. The afterlife serves the offer and is part of the future, as Mao emphasizes. This is also true for Shiites, who enjoy their afterlife daily through rituals, religious practices and stories. Given the centrality of victimization and humiliation to China, the Shiites, and their usual adversary Washington, there is plenty of opportunity for both sides to reflect on each other. Understanding China’s century of humiliation is very important to understanding its behavior, and the same goes for Iraqi Shiites, particularly given how social media and the rivalry between US and Iraqi militias perpetuate the narrative of victimization in the era. fashionable. Although Iraqi Shiites want to move beyond their sense of victimhood, the new multipolar world may ultimately revitalize and expand their narrative.
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