Dr. Massaab Al-Aloosy is a Non-Resident Fellow at Gulf International Forum. He is a researcher focusing on Iraq, Iran, and Shia non-state armed groups. He holds a PhD from the Fletcher School-Tufts University and is the author of The Changing Ideology of Hezbollah, Palgrave 2020. He previously was an Assistant Professor at the Critical Security Program at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.