Asmaa Jameel Rasheed

Researcher at the Center for Women's Studies, University of Baghdad

Asmaa Jameel Rasheed is a researcher specializing in women's affairs. She worked as a Consultant in the UNICEF in a project on the children who were born as a result of the conflict. Her research interests focus on issues of gender, Islamism, tribalism, and the and the social and psychological repercussions of armed conflict. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Baghdad and is currently obtaining a professorship in the Sociology of Women. She is currently working as a Researcher at the Center for Women's Studies, University of Baghdad, working as a consultant for a project to evaluate the experience of social sciences in Iraq, which is implemented by the Arab Center for Social Sciences. She has published many studies and researches on women associated with ISIS and children born as a result of the conflict, the mechanisms of male domination in the social structure, the conditions of women belonging to minorities, widows and displaced persons, and marriage patterns in Iraq. She has also published more than one research on the analysis of women’s participation in the October 2019 protests.