Feisal al-Istrabadi: Iraq - Two Decades After the War

Biography

Ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi served as Iraq’s Ambassador to the UN from 2004 to 2010. He served as a legal advisor to the Iraqi minister for foreign affairs during the negotiations for the U.N. Security Council Resolution that recognized the reassertion by Iraq of its sovereignty. He was also principal legal drafter of Iraq’s interim constitution, the Law of Administration of the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period. Before contributing to the reconstruction of Iraq, Istrabadi was a practicing trial lawyer in the United States for 15 years. 

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 international law and diplomacy at the Maurer School of Law and the School of Global and International Studies. He is a professor by courtesy at IUB’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Istrabadi focuses his research on the processes of building legal and political institutions in countries in transition from dictatorship to democracy. He recently co-edited The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications with Sumit Ganguly.

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