Ayad Khalaf Hussein Birthday Date 1980 Assistant Professor in Political thought / Faculty of Political Sciences- University of Kufa. Email :[email protected] AcademicBackground • BA :Political Science 2003 / Faculty of Political Science /University of Baghdad • MA :Political Science "Islamic though" 2007/ Faculty of Political Science /University of Baghdad MA thesis title is "Dialectical materialist method in the study of Islamic thought" • PHD :Political Science 2011 / Faculty of Political Science /University of Baghdad, PHD these title is "The Civil State In the Contemporary Islamic Political Thought". Research Interest • ContemporaryIslamic political thought. • Contemporary Islamic movements. • Democratic transition in Arabic world. • Iraq politics after 2003. TeachingInterests • Islamic Political Thought • Modern and Old Western Political Thought • Third world politics