Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi is the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East at the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, where he is also university scholar in international law and diplomacy at the Maurer School of Law. He was the ambassador and deputy permanent representative of Iraq to the UN from 2004 to 2010 and was the principal legal drafter of Iraq’s interim constitution in 2003-2004.