Barry Posen, director of the Center’s Security Studies Program, Juan Cole, a CIS research affiliate, and other scholars, were featured on WBUR’s “On Point.” The scholars discussed with host Tom Ashbrook the recent rise of Moktada al-Sadr and his militia in the southern oil port of Basra. Listen to Basra: Defining Moment? Related, is a recent CIS Audit on Iraq by Juan Cole. Stephen Van Evera, associate director of CIS, was featured on Minnesota Public Radio on the topic "Calm returns to Iraq?"