Publications
Peer Review
Fazil, S., & Baser, B. (2025). Echoes of survival and justice: The Yezidi genocide and its lasting impact. In K. Salih (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of Kurdish genocide. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87612-7_11
Fazil, S. (2023). Integrating culture into return migration programming. Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, 11(1), 65–72. [URL]
Fazil, S., & Connelly, M. (2023). Civil disobedience and lawfare: Protest movement and contentious politics in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 23(3), 314–335. https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12402
Palani, K., & Fazil, S. (2023). Fluid state-building in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Taking advantage of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. International Peacekeeping, 30(5), 642–667. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2236925
Baser, B., & Fazil, S. (2022). "They hear us but they do not listen to us": Youth narratives on hope and despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 16, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.11576/ijcv-5826
Fazil, S., & Baser, B. (2021). Kurdish youth as agents of change: Political participation, looming challenges, and future predictions. In S. Fazil & B. Baser (Eds.), Youth identity, politics and change in contemporary Kurdistan. Transnational Press London. [URL]
Public-facing
Iran war forces Kurdish groups into the spotlight, Manara Magazine, March 2026.
What Mustafa Barzani's 1975 letter to Kissinger tells us about the U.S. abandonment of the SDF, Amargi, January 2026.
Iraq's high-stakes elections amid shifting regional dynamics, 1001 Iraqi Thoughts, November 2025.
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq is finally having its election. Here's how it'll play out, Atlantic Council, October 2024.
Iraq's ethnoreligious minorities: Exclusion from power-sharing grand bargains, Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies, July 2024.
How Iraq's minorities became political pawns for both Kurds and Arabs, Amwaj Media, July 2024.
Addressing challenges to tolerance and religious diversity in Iraq, Middle East Institute, June 2023.
Understanding the roots of the younger generations' despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Arab Reform Initiative, April 2023.
Iraq's new government must deliver results quickly, or fall, New Arab, November 2022.
Protests in the MENA: Cultural narratives and social upward mobility, Università della Svizzera italiana, August 2022.
Why climate change will exacerbate inequalities and grievances in Iraq, New Security Beat Blog, May 2022.
The political marginalisation of ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq, Manara Magazine, March 2022.
Government formation in gridlock while Iraq faces an array of challenges, LSE Middle East Centre Blog, February 2022.
Iraqis go to the polls on October 10. What happens next?, Euronews, October 2021.
Cultural reconstruction is critical after Islamic State occupation, SIPRI, November 2020.
The resurgence of the Islamic State in Iraq: Political and military responses, SIPRI, June 2020.
Iraqi Kurdistan's parliamentary elections: Inflection point or plateau?, Atlantic Council, October 2018.
Policy
Climate change and community perceptions in Nineveh Province of Iraq, Arab Reform Initiative & Robert Bosch Stiftung, March 2025.
Addressing challenges in water and environmental governance: The role of Iraqi youth in fostering accountability, IRIS Report, April 2024.
Post-conflict reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq, SIPRI Policy Paper, November 2022.
Armed conflict and peace processes in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, SIPRI Yearbook 2022 chapter, June 2022.
Reimagining the social contract in Iraq, UNDP Policy Report, May 2022.
Iraq: Climate, peace and security fact sheet, NUPI-SIPRI Fact Sheet, April 2022.
Reform within the system: Governance in Iraq and Lebanon, SIPRI Policy Paper, December 2021.
Fixing the economy and public service provision in Iraq, SIPRI Policy Brief, December 2021.
Armed conflict and peace processes in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, SIPRI Yearbook 2021 chapter, June 2021.
Protest and state–society relations in the Middle East and North Africa, SIPRI Policy Paper, October 2020.