Myriam Benraad is a lead author on Iraq, a lecturer in political science and a researcher on the Middle East at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM, CNRS). She is the author of The Islamic State in its Own Words (Paris, Armand Colin, 2017); Iraq, the Revenge of History. From Foreign Occupation to the Islamic State (Paris, Vendémiaire, 2015); and Iraq, From Babylon to the Islamic State. Received Ideas on a Complex Nation (Paris, Cavalier Bleu, 2015).