mohammed hussein ali abdulrazzaq merzah

Neoliberalism is a set of economic policies having undergone extensive changes in the domestic economic system of countries and the international economic system, and its most important components are: firm belief in a free and unlimited global free market and private property. The new economic policy in Iraq is being implemented in the political context imposed by the US occupation. This economic policy in Iraq is linked to the capitalist policy of the United States; Thus, all the characteristics of neoliberalism are evident in one model, that is military attack and occupation, the demarcation of the power-dependent political system, and the imposition and application of an economic model against us. These policies started with a shock and are continuing with a structural adjustment; In other words, these policies do not arise from social needs and necessities, rather they are the product of a sudden political change that happened through the occupation and not during the objective growth of society and internal forces or at the level of its production. This study does not claim that Iraq is a government with a neoliberal economy, but seeks to describe, analyze and criticize the detrimental consequences of the policies neoliberal economic model on the Iraqi government and society.The US-led global capitalist system integrated the US into an open market economy and global capitalism by creating a shock to Iraq. This action was not only in the direction of reform for Iraqi government, but since it was the outcome of a suddenly shocking act through the occupation of Iraq, It was shocking through the occupation of Iraq and it did not meet the needs of the economic, political and social development of Iraqi society, so it caused numerous political, economic and social challenges including unemployment, poverty, corruption and corruption, the growth of terrorism, the rise of domestic and foreign debts and, the disappearance of the domestic private sector, the disappearance of trade unions, the rise of class divisions, national dissatisfaction and relative prosperity, the outflow of the country's wealth through the creation of a false and opaque private sector, the stabilization of the rentier economy, the rise of costs in the public sector especially the employees.

With an analytical view of the political actions and historical events of Iraq that have happened in spaces with specific issues، it can be clearly seen that the most important social forces active in the political arena of Iraq، which can change the social، cultural، political and economic situations by relying on the principles and components of discourse created by himself، the Shia religious social political discourse، which is analyzed and examined both quantitatively and qualitatively. In this article، using the discourse analysis method of Laclau and Moff، he described the discourse of the politicizing matter with a Shiite identity، which in different periods with the specific central signifiers of that period has given meaning to the signifiers or floating signifiers، and this meaning has become discourse and social actions. Also، in this article، the question of how the Shia political discourse in Iraq is all the actions of competing discourses and Can he identify the power and respond to them as much as possible، including his knowledge system and at what levels? We examine.

The collapse of Saddam in 2003 is regarded as a turning point in relation to the social political changes of Iraq on one hand and the role of various intellectual political trends on the other hand. Although this event is of considerable function towards the advancement of Iraq, it indicated the fundamental crises in Iraq community. The present article investigates the important intellectual political trends in these eras being under the two macro Shiite Sunnite intellectual political trends and presents their analysis affected by ThomasSprings’ theoretical pattern. The extensive investigation done in this article illustrates the disagreement of these trends with respect to the identification of crisis, its causes and elements, the favorable status as well as the ways of achieving it.

The College of Archaeology at the University of Kufa, in cooperation with the Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit and the Women's Affairs Unit, held an awareness lecture entitled "Water Conservation." The lecture was presented by Dr. Muhammad Hussein Ali Mirza, who emphasized that water is the essence of life and the foundation for its continuation. It is a great blessing that must be preserved and its use avoided. With increasing environmental challenges and water scarcity in many countries, water conservation has become a collective responsibility. The conscious use of water in our daily lives, such as repairing leaks and using water only as needed for cleaning and irrigation, contributes significantly to preserving this vital resource for future generations.

On Friday, January 30, 2026, the College of Archaeology at the University of Kufa, in cooperation with the Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit, headed by Dr. Muhammad Hussein Ali Mirza, and under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Hussein Doush, Dean's Assistant for Administrative Affairs, organized a volunteer campaign to clean the college's corridors. The campaign included cleaning and preparing the hallways and classrooms. This campaign is part of the ongoing campaigns organized by the college. A number of students and staff members participated in the campaign.

In the presence of the Dean of the College of Archaeology, University of Kufa, Professor Dr. Hamid Mustafa Al-Yasiri. The College of Archaeology – University of Kufa / Technological Business Incubator and Ecosystem Unit held an educational seminar titled “Connecting the University to the Labor Market”, presented by M.M. Mohammed Hussein Marza. A number of academics, students, and those interested in developmental affairs attended. Through the seminar, the lecturer addressed the roots of the weak relationship between the university and its outputs on one hand, and the local, regional, and global economy on the other. He highlighted ways to bridge this gap, contributing to activating the true role of the university in the development of the Iraqi state at economic, political, and cultural levels. At the end of the seminar, discussion was opened, and all questions, interventions, and comments from attendees were answered, amidst positive interaction reflecting the importance of the topic.

The College of Archaeology / University of Kufa participated in the opening of the activities of the second annual central guidance exhibition, organized by the University of Kufa on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at nine o’clock in the morning in the university office under the slogan (Reducing negative phenomena in society, and educating towards positive phenomena) under the supervision of the unit official, Dr. Mohammed Hussein Marza, by holding an exhibition of documentary and heritage photos and a number of manuscripts and historical documents. The college exhibition witnessed a wide turnout from the attendees.