AEI's Black Coffee Briefings address the future of Iraq and its consequences for U.S. efforts to fight terrorism overseas.

April 23
Simultaneous unrest in Sunni and Shi'a areas of Iraq have raised the specter of a countrywide uprising, but sustained violence has not spread beyond Fallujah, and mainstream Shi'a have declined to join the firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Zainab al-Suwaij, Hedieh Mirahmadi, Reuel Gerecht, and Michael Rubin discuss the realities of the relationship between Iraq's Shi'a and Sunni communities. View materials from this session.

March 17
Rend Rahim, Karlyn Bowman, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Richard Perle, Danielle Pletka, and Thomas Donnelly discuss the future of Iraq one year after the start of the war. View materials from this session.

Learn more about the beginnings of the Black Coffee Briefings, before and during the Iraq war.

View materials from the related 2002-2003 series on preparing for a post-Saddam Iraq.