Ruba al-Hassani

Ruba Ali Al-Hassani is a former Nonresident Fellow at TIMEP and a legal sociologist. At TIMEP, her research focused on transitional justice in Iraq and the broader context in-country. Beyond TIMEP, her research explores sociological and behavioural approaches to Iraqi studies, law, transitional Justice, crime, social control, and social movements. Ms. Al-Hassani is also a contributing writer at Inside Arabia. Her commentary and analysis have been featured on networks throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East, including the BBC and CBC, and in four languages. She co-founded the Canadian Association for Muslim Women in Law and is a board member at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture and at the Canadian Alopecia Areata Foundation. She has taught at York University and Trent University. Ruba holds a B.Sc. in Psychology & Sociology, a M.A. in Criminology, and an LL.M. in transitional justice, as she completes her PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada. You can follow her on Twitter at @RubaAlHassani.

Articles by: Ruba al-Hassani

Free Speech Under Threat in Iraq

Since 2019, the Iraq protest movement, dubbed the "Tishreen (October) Revolution," has revealed the lengths to which both state and non-state actors are willing to silence dissent and free speech. Iraqi activists...

Hate Speech, Social Media and Political Violence in Iraq: Virtual Civil Society and Upheaval

Growing more emboldened since Iraq’s defeat of ISIS, armies of online trolls have shed the Internet’s cloak of anonymity.

Iraq Protests Battle for State Sovereignty

In October of 2019, Iraq witnessed the launch of a mass protest movement known as the "October Revolution," with the slogan “We Want a Homeland” (نريد وطن ), which has become the movement’s...