Saad Salloum is an assistant professor of international relations at the College of Political Science in Al-Mustansiryah University. He is a founding member of the Iraqi Council for Interfaith Dialogue, the National Center for Confronting Hate Speech in Iraq, and the Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity. Salloum has published 16 books on diversity in Iraq and the Middle East, including his latest, The End of Diversity in Iraq (2020).