Hoshang Dara
Saeideh Shariati Najafabadi
During the Iraqi Baath Party regime, the Faili Kurds faced an act of genocide; and their identity, as both Kurd and Shia, was terrorized. After the regime change in 2003, the discriminated decrees and laws were nulled. This paved the way to their return from Iran where they had been expelled, and re-acquire the citizenship that they were stripped from. Nevertheless, the community is still recovering from the genocide and facing the challenges of being both Kurds and Shi'a. That is because, as individuals, their wounds have not properly been healed yet; and they act as citizens in a country where political participation is mostly based on ethno-sectarianism, but not citizenship. While there are Faili individuals who play role in political arenas, their participation is not to represent their community. Other high-ranking politicians and lawmakers are there to represent non-Faili political parties and tendencies. Faili's pure participation is through a reserved minority seat in Wasit. This paper is to discuss the process of reactivating their real role in Iraqi politics through reintegrating them into Iraqi society. The question is how this might happen. The research uses qualitative methodology to collect and analyze data within the framework of political science. [1]

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