Harith Hasan

Harith Hasan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on border, identity politics, religious actors, and state-society relations in Iraq. He holds a PhD in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability from the Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies. Harith has published articles, essays, and papers in both English and Arabic media. His latest publications include “The Transformations of Iraqi-Syrian Border: From a National to a Regional Frontier” (April 2020, Carnegie Middle East Center, co-authored); “State Atrophy and the Reconfiguration of Borderlands in Syria and Iraq: Post-2011 Dynamics in the Journal of Political Geography” (June 2020).   

Harith is a Research Lead for XCEPT at the Carnegie Middle East Center.  He leads research by the X-Border Local Research Network on Iraq’s borders.