Doctor Ibrahim al-Marashi is an associate professor at California State University, San Marcos, researching modern Iraqi history.
[1] He is best known as the author of an article which was plagiarised by the British government in a 2003 briefing document entitled Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation (see Dodgy Dossier).
[citation needed] The material plagiarised from Marashi's work and copied nearly verbatim into the "Dodgy Dossier" was six paragraphs from his article Iraq's Security & Intelligence Network: A Guide & Analysis,[2] which was published in the September 2002 issue [1] of the Middle East Review of International Affairs.
Tony Blair's office ultimately apologised to Marashi for its actions, but not to the MERIA journal.
Additionally, he had previously worked at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University on a project classifying captured Iraqi state documents.