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Phebe Marr
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Phebe Marr is currently a Senior Fellow at the U.S.

Institute of Peace where she is working on a project: envisioning an alternative future for Iraq.

Written by noted Iraq scholar Phebe Marr with new co-author Ibrahim al-Marashi, this text is essential reading for readers who seek to understand modern Iraq in.

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A bus trip to Baghdad in the late s began Dr. Marr's path to become one of the leading American experts on Iraq.

Phebe Marr is a noted scholar and historian of the modern Middle East and a leading consultant and commentator on Iraqi politics.

The Modern History of Iraq places in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to afflict the country.

She has spent over 40 years as a scholar and analyst of southwest Asia and is a leading US specialist on Iraq, frequently consulted by government and non-government authorities. The revised edition of her book, The Modern History of Iraq, was published by Westview in 2004.

Between 1998 and 1999 she was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC. Until 1998, she was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, a US government “think tank” responsible for undertaking long range studies on US security policy.

She retired from the US government in 1997. Before joining INSS in 1985, she was Associate Professor of Middle East history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1975-1985) and California State U