Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi / Mohammad Eslami is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Minho, a visiting fellow of International Security at Dublin City University, Ireland, and a Max Weber Fellow of International Security at European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He was also a fellow of Arms Control Negotiation Academy led by Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies of Harvard University. His research primarily focuses on the proliferation of conventional and unconventional weapons in the Middle East region. Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East History at California State University San Marcos, and an advisory board member of the International Security and Conflict Resolution (ISCOR) program at San Diego State University. He is the co-author of Iraq’s Armed Forces: An Analytical History (2008), The Modern History of Iraq (2016), and A Concise History of the Middle East (2025).