Protests erupted in the streets in Iraq in September and have persisted on a daily basis since. But who are the protestors—and what do they want?

Estimates suggest there have been hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries related to attempts to put down the protestors down.

Here, David Siddhartha Patel, associate director for research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and author of the forthcoming book Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and Social Order in Iraq (forthcoming from Cornell University Press), explains what’s going on:

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