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• Une conversation amicale en forme de préface
• Introduction : Les Kurdes : de l'Empire Mède vers la plus grande nation du monde sans état
• Le Kurdistan irakien
• ANFAL (Génocide kurde)
• Récits et témoignages
• Wirya Rehmany
• Teymour : le seul enfant rescapé des tranchées
• Uzeyr
• Faraj
• Wahed
• Ramazan
• Interview avec Abdulhasan Muhan Murad, conducteur de pelle mécanique hydraulique
• Les discours d'Ali Hassan al-Majid à propos d'Anfal
• Un document officiel du régime irakien qui mentionne l'opération d'Anfal
• La politique des États-Unis envers l'Anfal
• Lexique.

"L'histoire méconnue du peuple kurde est faite de multiples soubresauts et de la volonté de puissance d'autres pays qui nient jusqu'à son existence, en montant les différentes factions les unes contre les autres. L'auteur retrace le déroulement du massacre d'Anfal par le régime irakien de Saddam Hussein à partir de témoignages de survivants et de son expérience personnelle. La dureté de certaines descriptions est inhérente à ce type de récits mais demeure malgré tout en deçà de la réalité. L'horreur n'est jamais loin quand on dénie à des individus le droit d'exister avec ses propres coutumes. Le travail de mémoire a besoin d'être confronté à un débat contradictoire afin que des pans entiers de l'histoire ne sombrent pas dans l'oubli. C'est la tâche que s'est fixé l'auteur dans cet ouvrage très documenté pour que soit révélé la réalité du génocide de ce peuple noble et sans ami et qui, comme le souligne l'auteur "est parfois lui-même son propre ennemi". Ne dit-on pas d'un peuple qui ne connait pas son histoire qu'il est condamné à la revivre ?"--Page 4 of cover.

• Saddam Hussein
• George W. Bush
• 9/11
• Iraq
• Coercive diplomacy
• A special relationship
• Deciding
• Resolve
• Mission awry
• Conclusion: Fear, power, hubris

"Based on a unique set of interviews and British and American documents, this book examines the motives for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, examines the decision-making inside the Bush administration, and assesses the reasons for the chaotic, bloody, and costly occupation. The attack on America on 9/11 by al Qaeda terrorists transformed the thinking and actions of Bush and his top advisers. Bush conceived the administration's response. Fear, power, and hubris shaped his approach - fear of another attack; pride in American values; and confidence in America's ability to effectuate change. Worried about another attack on American soil - this time with biological or chemical weapons - Bush turned his attention to Iraq because of Saddam Hussein's history with weapons of mass destruction and because of his record of aggression, brutality, and duplicity. To achieve his goals, the American president embraced a strategy of coercive diplomacy. If Iraq faced a military threat, Bush hoped Hussein would open his country to inspections, relinquish his alleged weapons of mass destruction, flee, or be toppled. When Hussein admitted inspectors yet remained obstructive, Bush denounced the dictator's defiance and believed America's credibility was at stake. Without resolving the ambiguities and inconsistencies in his strategy of coercive diplomacy and failing to assess the consequences of an invasion or to plan effectively for its many contingencies, Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq. Friction and acrimony within the administration turned the occupation into a tragedy, the consequences of which we are still living with"-- Provided by publisher

• Contents Illustrations v Introduction 1 Author's note 4
• The context of travel writing 5
• Baghdad and the Ottoman Empire 9 One name and multiple locations 9 A unique city with a mysterious history 11 The Ottoman Empire 15 The perception of Ottoman cities in historiography 16 The Mamluk's ruling of Baghdad 20
• Travelogues and history Representation 29 Travelogues methods and attitudes 29 Travelogues and Orientalism 33 Travelogues and Islamic studies 36 Travelogues and heritage understanding 43
• Diverse travelers before the 18th Century 46 Regional travelers 46 European travelers 50
• Europeans Involvement in the 18th Century 53 Mapping Efforts of Carsten Niebuhr 54 The Novels of Guillaume Antoine Olivier 60
• British Intervention Intensifies 66 The Arabian Nights 67 Political focus of Claudius Rich 69
• Lifestyle conditions by Mary Rich 73 City descriptions by James Silk Buckingham 76 Colonial interests in Heude's writings 88
• Summary 94 Endnotes 98 Bibliography Index.
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This is the first book of its kind to include extensive analysis of the travelogues of Baghdad in relation to historiography. This book contains analysis of the stages of travel writing in general and the objectives of the writers, which makes it appealing for people who are keen to learn about the travelogues worldwide. The research in this book encompasses a number of disciplines, including urban history, architecture, literature, travel writing, history of Baghdad, Islamic studies, heritage and conservation. Because of this variety it would appeal to many academics from different backgrounds. Apart from academics, this book would appeal to other people who are interested in history, literature, Arabic, Islamic cities, and learning in general. Some photos and diagrams that are used in this book are taken from original sources that have been rarely published before.
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• Introduction: Iraq and the World
• Precursors
• The Gulf Crisis and the New World Order
• Triumph and despair after the Gulf War
• Building networks in the West, 1991-2
• Toward influencing policy in non-Western World, 1991-2
• Courting Clinton
• A turning point for the New World Order
• Breaking isolation
• Normalization, 9/11, and the road to war
• Conclusion and afterword: Saddam's Iraq and twenty-first century disorder

"The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly escalating and confounding threat for the liberal international order. In Iraq against the World, Samuel Helfont offers a new narrative of Iraqi foreign policy after the 1991 Gulf War to argue that Saddam Hussein executed a political warfare campaign that facilitated this disturbance to global norms. Following the Gulf War, the UN imposed sanctions and inspections on the Iraqi state--conditions that Saddam Hussein was in no position to challenge militarily or through traditional diplomacy. Hussein did, however, wage an influence campaign designed to break the unity of the UN Security Council. The Iraqis helped to impede emerging norms of international cooperation and prodded potentially revisionist states to act on latent inclinations to undermine a liberal post-Cold War order. Drawing on internal files from the ruling Ba'th Party, Helfont highlights previously unknown Iraqi foreign policy strategies, including the prominent use of influence operations and manipulative statesmanship. He traces Ba'thist operations around the globe--from the streets of New York and Stockholm, to the mosques of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, to the halls of power in Paris and Moscow. Iraqi Ba'thists carried out espionage, planted stories in the foreign press, established overt and covert relations with various political parties, and attempted to silence anyone who disrupted their preferred political narrative. They presented themselves simply as Iraqis concerned about the suffering of their friends and families in their home country, and, consequently, were able to assemble a loose political coalition that was unknowingly being employed to meet Iraq's strategic goals. This, in turn, divided Western states and weakened norms of cooperation and consensus toward rules-based solutions to international disputes, causing significant damage to liberal internationalism and the institutions that were supposed to underpin it. A powerful reconsideration of the history of Iraqi foreign policy in the 1990s and the early 2000s, Iraq against the World offers new insights into the evolution of the post-Cold War order."-- Provided by publisher

"Addressing major political developments in Iraq over the past century, this book provides an up-to-date and accessible study of the country, advancing a sympathetic yet balanced understanding of its critical role in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and in global affairs. The Author introduces three concepts to understand Iraq's historical trajectory: the pursuit of power, the impact of state institutions, and the transformation of social identities. Using this analytical paradigm, the book illuminates the unique political, economic, and social dimensions of Iraqi national life. As well as providing comparison points with MENA countries, the book evaluates Iraqi relations with external actors, including the Arab states, Iran and Israel, Europe, and the United States. Though conscious of Iraq's long and complex history, special attention is paid to contemporary events, ranging from Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to the American-led invasion in 2003, and more recent struggles with elections, the Islamic State, and democracy. It is nevertheless argued that, despite its challenges, Iraq's story remains hopeful moving forward in time. Both wide-ranging and closely focused, the book is vital reading for students, scholars and general audiences interested in political economy, international relations, and the history of Iraq"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Babylonian theories of language
• Language and cosmos in the Epic of Creation
• Hesiod, language, and the names of Ishtar
• Orpheus' cosmic names
• Conclusion.

"A ground-breaking analysis of the origins of Western linguistic thought, exploring how ancient Greek and Mesopotamian thinkers saw the relationship between human symbols and the universe. By examining neglected primary sources, the book offers fresh reconstructions of how these thinkers conceived the interrelation of language and reality"-- Provided by publisher.

""Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen." So begins Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's rule and Iraq's Kurdish conflict. Muzafar-i Subhdam, a peshmerga fighter, has spent the last twenty-one years imprisoned in a desert yearning for his son, Saryas, who was only a few days old when Muzafar was captured. Upon his release, Muzafar begins a frantic search, only to learn that Saryas was one of three identical boys who became enmeshed in each other's lives as war mutilated the region"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction: Unearthing and Historicizing the Mosul Incident.
• 2. The State Authority and Sadaat al-Barzanjiyya in the Second Constitutional Era.
• 3. The Mosul Incident in the Context of Organized Violence.
• 4. Reflections of the Mosul Incident on the Parliament.
• 5. Deepening and Expansion of the Crisis.
• 6. Judgement and Sentencing.
• 7. Conclusion: Tracing the Origins of the Arab-Kurdish Dispute in the Mosul Incident

The primary objective of this book is to unearth the Mosul Incident, place it in a historical narrative and introduce it to the literature. Despite creating a historical turning point, the incident has not attracted the necessary attention in neither the Ottoman nor Iraqi historiography until now. By interpreting the preferences, policies and practices associated with this particular incident, the book is engaged to analyze the Post-Constitutional power shifts, perceptions of collective violence and the origins of Arab-Kurdish Dispute.The banishment and murder of Sheikh Said Barzanji who was the family head of Sadaat al-Barzanjiyya as the most influential religious organization of region, created a critical threshold in the history of Mosul. As the urban shootout on January 5 turned into a provincial bloodshed, Kurdish Sayyids, tribes and religious orders consolidated and revolted against the Ottoman authorities. Governors who were polarized as Anti Sâdât and Pro Sâdât allegedly misconducted their offices and misguided the authorities of law enforcement and judiciary.By overcoming the historical rupture between Ottoman Mosul and Modern Iraq, the book introduces an analytical framework to associate the origins of collective violence and ethnic fragmentation experienced in today's Iraq with the past

• The Viability of the ZPN Policy towards Iraqi Kurdistan in Post-Arab Uprising, 2011
• The Main Elements in Analyzing Turkish Foreign Policy
• The Zero Problems with Neighbours Policy : A Contextual Background
• The Kurdish Regional Dynamic Impacts on the Zero Problems with Neighbours Policy Post-Arab Uprising
• The Turkish Zero Problems Policy with Iraqi Kurdistan : A Kurdish Elites' Perspectives

"This book has two specific objectives. First is to examine the Kurdish regional impacts by looking at the engagement of non-state actors such as Kurds in Syria, the PKK, and ISIS; second is to analyze the challenges and the opportunities raised after 2011 for implementation of the ZPN policy towards Iraqi Kurdistan by Turkey"-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue
• Part I The leader necessity and his statue. My first war
• Mother of all battles
• The years of the sanctions
• Baghdad and the red room
• Hawassim, the decisive battle
• The statue
• Part 2 The collapse of the state and the first civil war. Bakunin In Baghdad
• The viceroy
• Of exiles and militias
• The rebellion
• Karbala
• A street In Baghdad
• Fallujah
• The collaterals
• The shrink
• Hameed
• Saddam's trial
• A civil war is born
• The spy
• The wedding
• The Baghdad morgue
• Migration, part 1
• The Sunnis defeated
• The schoolteacher
• The Sadda
• Part 3 A new state. Hassan
• The new leader
• The state of corruption
• Hassan And Maliki
• Part 4 In between two wars. The Sunni Spring, Syria
• Enter the Jihadis
• The Sunni Spring, Iraqi version
• The Jihadi begin building a state
• We are coming to Baghdad and other delusions
• The collapse of the brave new army
• Part 5 The Islamic State and second civil war. Fall of Mosul
• The Shia mobilise to war
• Diala front lines
• The state
• The people resisting
• Migration, part 2
• The colonel
• Ali's war
• Aftermath
• Life and tragedy return to Mosul
• Epilogue

"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction / Nicole Brish and Fumi Karahashi
• Women's history and gender history in Japan / Yuko Matsumoto
• Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash / Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Fumi Karahashi.

Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and too small to attract much political notice. But their happy existence is suddenly shattered when Elias, a journalist, goes missing. A brutal organization is sweeping over the land, infiltrating even the remotest corners, its members cloaking their violence in religious devotion. Helen's search for her husband results in her own captivity and enslavement. She eventually escapes her captors and is reunited with some of her family. But her life is forever changed. Elias remains missing and her sons, now young recruits to the organization, are like strangers. Will she find harmony and happiness again?

This book explores the tumultuous war years through the lens of the British Embassies in Cairo and Baghdad, demonstrating the role that the Second World War played in shaping the political and social map of the contemporary Middle East. The war served as a catalyst for seismic changes in Arab society and the emergence of new movements that provided powerful critiques of British intervention and of the governments that facilitated it, making the war a critical turning point in Britain's empire in the Middle East.
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The Shi'i clergy are amongst the most influential political players in the Middle East. For decades, scholars and observers have tried to understand the balance of power between, Shi'i 'quietism' and 'activism'. The book is based on exclusive interviews with high-profile Shi'i clerics in order to reveal how the Shi'i clerical elite perceives its role and engages in politics today. The book focuses on three ground-breaking events in the modern Middle East: the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2006 July war in Lebanon. By examining the nature and evolution of a Shi'i clerical network the book finds that, far from there being strategic differences between 'quitest' and 'activist' clerics, Shi'i mujtahid statesmen matured, from 1979 in Iran to 2003 Iraq, by way of a pragmatism which led to a strong form of transnational and associated whole in Lebanon in 2006. In doing so, the book breaks down the established, and misleading, dichotomisation of the Shi'i clergy into 'quietists' and 'activists' and discovers that the decision of Shi'i clerical elites to become politically active or to stay out of politics are attributable to their ability to adapt to their political environments.
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• What we believe we know about combat cohesion
• Welcome to the platoon (primary group cohesion)
• Jump right into it (shared combat experiences)
• Home away from home (shared living hardships)
• I can't leave (group identity)
• A different Army and a different war
• Get the Internet back up!
• Conditions for social cohesion to form
• Connected and fighting
• Protecting and building the full team
• A winning team
• On the other end of connected warfare

John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle. During that combat tour, he learned how important unit cohesion was to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing their shared experiences. When Spencer returned to Iraq five years later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable. Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed, the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily basis. In Connected Soldiers Spencer delivers lessons learned about effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the benefits gained from connections to family.
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• Chapter 1: Fieldwork and Methodology Approach
• Chapter 2: Understanding the Issues of Kirkuk as the Center of Disputed Areas
• Chapter 3: The Impact of Unclear Territorial Governance of Kirkuk on Ethnic Conflicts Post-2003
• Chapter 4: Understanding the Core Issues of Kirkuk since 2014
• Chapter 5: The Failed Methods and the Best Option to Settle the Issue of Kirkuk
• Chapter 6: Territorial Separation: Options of Implementation in Kirkuk
• Chapter 7: Conclusions and Findings.
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A Critical Evaluation of "Territorial Separation" as a Method of Addressing Ethnic Conflicts focuses on the reasons that have contributed to ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk. In the book, Ako S. Jalal addresses geographic, economic, political, and social factors., He argues in the outcome of the research that the previous applied methods like power sharing and Constitution rewriting could not address ethnic conflicts effectively. Finally, Jalal proves through the research hypothesis that the basic method to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk is territorial separation.
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