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Tareq Ismael (1939-2024)
Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada; the President of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies (ICCMES); the Secretary General of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES); and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World (formerly International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies). Author, co-author or editor of more than three-dozen books, his most recent publications include: Pax Americana: Unending War on Iraq (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) with Jacqueline S. Ismael and Leslie T. MacDonald, Iraq in the Twenty-First Century: Regime Change and the Making of a Failed State (New York: Routledge, 2015) with Jacqueline S. Ismael, Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change, Second Edition (New York: Routledge, 2015) with Jacqueline S. Ismael and Glenn E. Perry, and The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).