Zahra Ali is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Newark and the founder of Critical Studies of Iraq. She is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq (Cambridge University Press, and co-editor of Decolonial Pluriversalism (Rowman & Littlefield).
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If the amendment to the Personal Status Code is passed, lowering the legal age for marriage to nine, Iraq will be thrust into the dark ages, says Zahra Ali.