Iraq, Land of Two Rivers

Iraq, Land of Two Rivers
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106015920744
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Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Iraq, Land of Two Rivers by : Gavin Young

Kurdistan on the Global Stage

Kurdistan on the Global Stage
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9780813563541
ISBN-13 : 0813563542
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Kurdistan on the Global Stage by : Diane E. King

Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much of the area long known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’thist Iraqi government by the United States and its allies in 2003, Kurdistan became a recognized part of the federal Iraqi system. The Region is now integrated through technology, media, and migration to the rest of the world. Focusing on household life in Kurdistan’s towns and villages, King explores the ways that residents connect socially, particularly through patron-client relationships and as people belonging to gendered categories. She emphasizes that patrilineages (male ancestral lines) seem well adapted to the Middle Eastern modern stage and viceversa. The idea of patrilineal descent influences the meaning of refuge-seeking and migration as well as how identity and place are understood, how women and men interact, and how “politicking” is conducted. In the new Kurdistan, old values may be maintained, reformulated, or questioned. King offers a sensitive interpretation of the challenges resulting from the intersection of tradition with modernity. Honor killings still occur when males believe their female relatives have dishonored their families, and female genital cutting endures. Yet, this is a region where modern technology has spread and seemingly everyone has a mobile phone. Households may have a startling combination of illiterate older women and educated young women. New ideas about citizenship coexist with older forms of patronage. King is one of the very few scholars who conducted research in Iraq under extremely difficult conditions during the Saddam Hussein regime. How she was able to work in the midst of danger and in the wake of genocide is woven throughout the stories she tells. Kurdistan on the Global Stage serves as a lesson in field research as well as a valuable ethnography.

Land Behind Baghdad

Land Behind Baghdad
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0226004252
ISBN-13 : 9780226004259
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Land Behind Baghdad by : Robert McC. Adams

Britain in Iraq

Britain in Iraq
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0231142013
ISBN-13 : 9780231142014
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Britain in Iraq by : Peter Sluglett

After the end of World War I, international pressures prevented the Allies from implementing direct colonial rule over the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Instead, the Allies created a system of mandates for the governance of the Middle East. France was assigned Lebanon and Syria, and Britain was assigned Iraq, Palestine, and Transjordan. First published in 1976, Britain in Iraq has long been recognized as the definitive history of the mandate period, providing a meticulous and engaging account of Britain's political involvement in Iraq as well as rare insights into the motives behind the founding of the Iraqi state. Peter Sluglett presents a historical narrative of the development and implementation of the mandate in the face of considerable opposition in both Iraq and Britain and shows how the British maintained a "reliable" group of Iraqi clients in power to protect imperial interests. Sluglett explores the changing relationship between Britain and Iraq over the eighteen years of occupation and mandate, the interactions between Shi'ite and Sunni populations, the position of the Kurds, the boundary between Turkey and northern Iraq, and policies relating to defense, land tenure and the tribes, and education. A new conclusion attempts to analyze the legacy of the mandate and to offer some explanation for Iraq's continuing weakness as a state and the structural obstacles preventing the emergence of a plural political system.

Iraq

Iraq
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Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages : 38
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ISBN-10 : 0778793206
ISBN-13 : 9780778793205
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Iraq by : April Fast

A survey of the culture of Iraq, including religion, holidays and festivals, fashion, arts, cuisine, and leisure activities.

Historical Dictionary of Iraq

Historical Dictionary of Iraq
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 539
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ISBN-10 : 9780810865686
ISBN-13 : 0810865688
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Iraq by : Edmund A. Ghareeb

The Historical Dictionary of Iraq begins with the earliest civilizations and covers the many periods that followed, ranging from the history of ancient Mesopotamia to the Abbasid Empire to present-day Iraq. Included are a historical overview; a country profile; a review of the economy, oil, fauna, and political institution; coverage of the Iran-Iraq War; and coverage of the Kuwait invasion and the second Gulf War and other conflicts. The major ethnic groups such as the Kurds, the Turkumans and the Assyrians, Islam and Muslim sects, Christianity and Christian sects, as well as other religious groups are profiled. Dictionary entries also highlight the main political, religious, and ideological parties, groups, and organizations; major historical personalities; languages; literature; and cultural elements. A broad range of topics, both ancient and modern, are dealt with throughout the introduction and the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography complements this extensive historical reference.

Iraq-- Perspectives

Iraq-- Perspectives
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Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 0822395002
ISBN-13 : 9780822395003
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Iraq-- Perspectives by : Benjamin Lowy

Iraq

Iraq
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 451
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ISBN-10 : 9781786070258
ISBN-13 : 1786070251
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Iraq by : John Robertson

Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law – all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of civilization. In this unrivalled study, John Robertson details the greatness and grandeur of Iraq’s achievements, the brutality and magnificence of its ancient empires and its extraordinary contributions to the world. The only work in the English language to explore the history of the land of two rivers in its entirety, it takes readers from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American and British-led invasion, the rise of Islamic State and Iraq today. A fascinating and thought-provoking analysis, it is sure to be greatly appreciated by historians, students and all those with an interest in this diverse and enigmatic country. This paperback edition features a new epilogue, bringing the work up to date and looking ahead to Iraq’s future.

Love In A Torn Land

Love In A Torn Land
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 9781446438749
ISBN-13 : 1446438740
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Love In A Torn Land by : Jean Sasson

Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin 'Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women's lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious 'Chemical Ali', Saddam Hussein's most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.

From Mesopotamia to Iraq

From Mesopotamia to Iraq
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9780226586656
ISBN-13 : 0226586650
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis From Mesopotamia to Iraq by : Hans J. Nissen

The recent reopening of Iraq’s National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country’s dual image as both the cradle of civilization and a contemporary geopolitical battleground. A sweeping account of the rich history that has played out between these chronological poles, From Mesopotamia to Iraq looks back through 10,000 years of the region’s deeply significant yet increasingly overshadowed past. Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine begin by explaining how ancient Mesopotamian inventions—including urban society, a system of writing, and mathematical texts that anticipated Pythagoras—profoundly influenced the course of human history. These towering innovations, they go on to reveal, have sometimes obscured the major role Mesopotamia continued to play on the world stage. Alexander the Great, for example, was fascinated by Babylon and eventually died there. Seventh-century Muslim armies made the region one of their first conquests outside the Arabian peninsula. And the Arab caliphs who ruled for centuries after the invasion built the magnificent city of Baghdad, attracting legions of artists and scientists. Tracing the evolution of this vibrant country into a contested part of the Ottoman Empire, a twentieth-century British colony, a republic ruled by Saddam Hussein, and the democracy it has become, Nissen and Heine repair the fragmented image of Iraq that has come to dominate our collective imagination. In hardly any other continuously inhabited part of the globe can we chart such developments in politics, economy, and culture across so extended a period of time. By doing just that, the authors illuminate nothing less than the forces that have made the world what it is today.