Iraq
(see also Iraq: Saddam Regime, Gulf War, 1990-2003, Iraq: US Occupation, Iraq: Kurdistan, Iraq: Shi'ites, Iran: Islamic Revolution & Kuwait)
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
The Iraqi Government Assault on the Marsh Arabs. Human Rights Watch (1/03).
No Place to Hide. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker (11/25/02).
The Fifty-First State? James Fallows, Atlantic (11/02). What happens after we overthrow Saddam?
Russia, Iraq Plan Deal to Bolster Ties. Peter Baker, Washington Post (8/17/02).
When Asylum Seekers Knock, Europe is Deaf. Sarah Lyall, NY Times (6/20/02). Fate of an Iraqi refugee in Denmark.
Bush
Officials Differ on Way to Force Out Iraqi Leader. Christopher Marquis,
NY Times (6/19/02).
Planning
an Iraqi War, But Not an Outcome, William M. Arkin, LA Times (5/5/02).
US military divided over how to attack Iraq.
Invasion of Iraq-Coming
Soon, Fran Schor, Counterpunch (5/6/02). Troop call ups, weapons
production & war games point to late summer/early fall invasion.
No
Link Between Hijacker, Iraq Found, US Says. Walter Pincus, Washington
Post (5/1/02).
So what’s excuse for invading?
A Week of Coups, But
Now The Freedom Train Hits Town, David Wilson, Counterpunch (4/22/02)
US out to get Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons chief for encouraging
Saddam Hussein to sign chemical weapons convention (eliminates major justification
for bombing!).
Foreign Affairs: A War Against the Peacemaker,
George Monbiot, Guardian (4/16/02). US ouster of OPCW head ensures
that war is only means to destroy any chemical weapons Iraq possesses.
If
the CIA Had Butted Out. Ahmed Bouzid, LA Times (10/21/01). Roots
of 9/11 in US sabotage of Iranian democracy in 1953.
Don't Blame
Saddam For This One. Scott Ritter, Guardian (10/19/01). Former
UN Iraqi weapons inspector analyzes evidence for anthrax attack on US.
Envoy Delivers Clear Message. Mark Riley, Sydney Morning Herald (10/12/01). US threatens Iraq if it supports Taliban in any way.
War Against the Planet. Vijay Prashad. Counterpunch (9/15/01). US & British policies in Iraq & Afghanistan as background for 9/11 attacks.
The Campaign Issue that Wasn't. Martin Lee, SF Bay Guardian (11/13/00). Halliburton subsidiaries did $23m in business with Iraq while Cheyney was CEO.
Throttling Iraq. Tariq Ali, New Left Review (19-10/00).
Morbidity & Mortality Among Iraqi Children from 1990 through 1998. Richard Garfield & others, Fourth Freedom Forum (3/99).
Made in America. Dennis Bernstein, SF Bay Guardian (2/25/98). Iraq's weapons of mass destruction supplied by US & other Western corporations.
US & Saddam Hussein (n.d.). Video on history of young Saddam's collaboration with CIA.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
AMAR International Charitable Foundation. Assists Iraqi Marsh Arabs & refugees.
Campaign of Conscience (To stop war with Iraq, led by Fellowship of Reconciliation & American Friends Service Committee).
Coalition for International Justice.
End Iraq Sanctions (Nationwide signature ad campaign).
Iraq Policy Information Project
Iraq Speakers Bureau (Project of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center)
Iraqi National Congress (Opposition coalition supported by US & UK governments)
Middle East Research & Information Project (Publishers of indispensable MERIP Report)
Move On (petition campaign against war in Iraq)
National Campus Antiwar Network
National Network to End the War Against Iraq
No War with Iraq (The Nation's anti-war page)
One Million Postcards Campaign
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Iraq Reports
Swarna Rajagopalan's page on the Iraq Question
Voices in the Wilderness (Works to end sanctions & send delegations with medical supplies)
In the Library: Articles
Aburish, Said. Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge (London: Bloomsbury, 2000).
Adams, Doris G. Iraq's People & Resources (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1980).
Ali, Tariq. Bush in Babylon: the Recolonisation of Iraq (2nd ed,; NY: Verso, 2004). Includes useful review of 20th-c. Iraqi history.
Alnasrawi, Abbas. Financing Economic Development in Iraq: The Role of Oil in a Middle Eastern Economy (NY: Praeger, 1967).
__________. The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development & Prospects, 1950-2010 (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1994).
Amnesty International. Iraq: Children -- Innocent Victims of Political Repression (NY, 1991).
'Arif, Isma'il. Iraq Reborn: A Firsthand Account of the July 1958 Revolution & After (NY: Vantage, 1982).
Arnove, Anthony (ed.) Iraq under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions & War (Boston: South End, 2000).
'Atiyah, Ghassan. Iraq, 1908-1921: A Socio-Political Study (Beirut: Arab Institute for Research & Publication, 1973).
Baram, Amatzia. Building Toward Crisis: Saddam Husayn's Strategy for Survival (Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998).\
Bekhor, Gourji C. Fascinating Life & Sensational Death: The Conditions in Iraq Before & After the Six-Day War (Tel Aviv?: Peli, 1990).
Bengio, Ofra (ed.) Saddam Speaks on the Gulf Crisis: A Collection of Documents (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv U, 1992).
__________. Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (NY: Oxford, 1998).
Bhatya, Shyam & Daniel McGrory. Brighter than the Baghdad Sun: Saddam Hussein's Nuclear Threat to the US (Washington: Regnery, 2000).
Black, Edwin. Banking on Baghdad: Inside iraq;s 7,000-Year History of War, Profit & Conflict (NY: Wiley, 2004).
Bulloch, John & Harvey Morris. Saddam's War: The Origins of the Kuwait Conflict & the International Response (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1991).
Butler, Richard. The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction & the Crisis of Global Security (Boulder: Public Affairs, 2000). Seasoned Australian diplomat alienates both Iraqis & allies as head of UNSCOM in Iraq, & ends up endorsing US government position.
Chomsky, Noam. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (Boston: South End, 2000).
Chubin, Shahram. Iran & Iraq at War (Boulder: Westview, 1988).
Clawson, Patrick. How Has Saddam Hussein Survived? Economic Sanctions, 1990-1993 (Washington: Institute for National Strategic Studies, 1993).
__________ (ed.) Iraq Strategy Review: Options for US Policy (Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998).
Cockburn, Alexander. & Patrick Cockburn. Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (NY: HarperCollins, 1999). Essential critique of US policy towards Iraq.
Cohen, Stuart. British Policy in Mesopotamia, 1903-1914 (London: Ithaca, 1976).
Committee Against Repression & for Democratic Rights in Iraq (CARDRI). Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or Reaction? (London: Zed, 1986).
Cordesman, Anthony H. The Iran-Iraq War & Western Security, 1984-87: Strategic Implications & Policy Options (London: Jane's, 1987).
Dann, Uriel. Iraq under Qassem: A Political History, 1958-1963 (NY: Praeger, 1969).
Darwish, Adel & Gregory Alexander. Unholy Babylon: The Secret History of Saddam's War (NY: St. Martin's, 1991).
De Gaury, Gerald. Three Kings in Baghdad, 1921-1958 (London: Hutchinson, 1961).
Dodge, Toby. Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation-Building & a History (NY: Columbia, 2003).
El Azhary, M.S. (ed.) The Iran-Iraq War: An Historical, Economic & Political Analysis (London: Croom Helm, 1984).
Elliott, Matthew. "Independent Iraq": The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996).
Eppel, Michael. The Palestine Conflict in the History of Modern Iraq: The Dynamics of Involvement, 1928-1948 (London: Frank Cass, 1994).
Farouk-Sluglett, Marion & Peter Sluglett. Iraq since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship [1987] (rev. ed.; NY: I.B. Tauris, 2001).
Fernea, Elizabeth W. Guests of the Sheik: an Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (NY: Doubleday, 1965).
Fernea, Robert A. & William Roger Louis (eds.) The Iraqi Revolution of 1958: The Old Social Classes Revisited (NY: I.B. Tauris, 1991).
Foster, Henry A. The Making of Modern Iraq: A Product of World Forces (Norman: U. Oklahoma, 1935).
Freedman, Robert O. Soviet Policy toward Ba'athist Iraq, 1968-1979 (Carlisle Barracks PA: US Army War College, 1980).
Gat, Moshe. The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951 (London: Frank Cass, 1997).
Gopin, Marc. Holy War, Holy Peace. How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East (NY: Oxford, 2002).
Graham-Brown, Sarah. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999).
Grumman, Stephen R. The Iran-Iraq War: Islam Embattled (NY: Praeger, 1982).
Haj, Samira. The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power, & Ideology (Albany: SUNY, 1997).
Hamzah, Khidhir with Jeff Stein. Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Story of the Iraqi Nuclear & Biological Weapons Agenda (NY: Scribner, 2000).
Hazelton, Fran (ed.) Iraq since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy (London: Zed, 1994).
Heller, Mark A. The Iran-Iraq War: Implications for Third Parties (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1984).
Henderson, Simon. Instant Empire: Saddam Hussein's Ambition for Iraq (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991).
Hiro, Dilip. The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict (NY: Routledge, 1991).
Hopwood, Derek; Habib Ishow & Thomas Koszinowski (eds.) Iraq: Power & Society (Reading: Ithaca, 1993).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Aburish, Said. Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge (London: Bloomsbury, 2000).
Adams, Doris G. Iraq's People & Resources (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1980).
Ali, Tariq. Bush in Babylon: the Recolonisation of Iraq (2nd ed,; NY: Verso, 2004). Includes useful review of 20th-c. Iraqi history.
Alnasrawi, Abbas. Financing Economic Development in Iraq: The Role of Oil in a Middle Eastern Economy (NY: Praeger, 1967).
__________. The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development & Prospects, 1950-2010 (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1994).
Amnesty International. Iraq: Children -- Innocent Victims of Political Repression (NY, 1991).
'Arif, Isma'il. Iraq Reborn: A Firsthand Account of the July 1958 Revolution & After (NY: Vantage, 1982).
Arnove, Anthony (ed.) Iraq under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions & War (Boston: South End, 2000).
'Atiyah, Ghassan. Iraq, 1908-1921: A Socio-Political Study (Beirut: Arab Institute for Research & Publication, 1973).
Baram, Amatzia. Building Toward Crisis: Saddam Husayn's Strategy for Survival (Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998).\
Bekhor, Gourji C. Fascinating Life & Sensational Death: The Conditions in Iraq Before & After the Six-Day War (Tel Aviv?: Peli, 1990).
Bengio, Ofra (ed.) Saddam Speaks on the Gulf Crisis: A Collection of Documents (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv U, 1992).
__________. Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (NY: Oxford, 1998).
Bhatya, Shyam & Daniel McGrory. Brighter than the Baghdad Sun: Saddam Hussein's Nuclear Threat to the US (Washington: Regnery, 2000).
Bulloch, John & Harvey Morris. Saddam's War: The Origins of the Kuwait
Conflict & the International Response (Boston: Faber & Faber,
1991).
Butler, Richard. The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction
& the Crisis of Global Security (Boulder: Public Affairs, 2000). Seasoned
Australian diplomat alienates both Iraqis & allies as head of UNSCOM in
Iraq, & ends up endorsing US government position.
Chomsky, Noam. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (Boston: South End, 2000).
Chubin, Shahram. Iran & Iraq at War (Boulder: Westview, 1988).
Clawson, Patrick. How Has Saddam Hussein Survived? Economic Sanctions, 1990-1993 (Washington: Institute for National Strategic Studies, 1993).
__________ (ed.) Iraq Strategy Review: Options for US Policy (Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998).
Cockburn, Alexander. & Patrick Cockburn. Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein (NY: HarperCollins, 1999). Essential critique of US policy towards Iraq.
Cohen, Stuart. British Policy in Mesopotamia, 1903-1914 (London: Ithaca, 1976).
Committee Against Repression & for Democratic Rights in Iraq (CARDRI). Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or Reaction? (London: Zed, 1986).
Cordesman, Anthony H. The Iran-Iraq War & Western Security, 1984-87: Strategic Implications & Policy Options (London: Jane's, 1987).
Dann, Uriel. Iraq under Qassem: A Political History, 1958-1963 (NY: Praeger, 1969).
Darwish, Adel & Gregory Alexander. Unholy Babylon: The Secret History of Saddam's War (NY: St. Martin's, 1991).
De Gaury, Gerald. Three Kings in Baghdad, 1921-1958 (London: Hutchinson, 1961).
Dodge, Toby. Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation-Building & a History (NY: Columbia, 2003).
El Azhary, M.S. (ed.) The Iran-Iraq War: An Historical, Economic & Political Analysis (London: Croom Helm, 1984).
Elliott, Matthew. "Independent Iraq": The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996).
Eppel, Michael. The Palestine Conflict in the History of Modern Iraq: The Dynamics of Involvement, 1928-1948 (London: Frank Cass, 1994).
Farouk-Sluglett, Marion & Peter Sluglett. Iraq since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship [1987] (rev. ed.; NY: I.B. Tauris, 2001).
Fernea, Elizabeth W. Guests of the Sheik: an Ethnography of an Iraqi Village (NY: Doubleday, 1965).
Fernea, Robert A. & William Roger Louis (eds.) The Iraqi Revolution of 1958: The Old Social Classes Revisited (NY: I.B. Tauris, 1991).
Foster, Henry A. The Making of Modern Iraq: A Product of World Forces (Norman: U. Oklahoma, 1935).
Freedman, Robert O. Soviet Policy toward Ba'athist Iraq, 1968-1979 (Carlisle Barracks PA: US Army War College, 1980).
Gat, Moshe. The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951 (London: Frank Cass, 1997).
Gopin, Marc. Holy War, Holy Peace. How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East (NY: Oxford, 2002).
Graham-Brown, Sarah. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999).
Grumman, Stephen R. The Iran-Iraq War: Islam Embattled (NY: Praeger, 1982).
Haj, Samira. The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power, & Ideology (Albany: SUNY, 1997).
Hamzah, Khidhir with Jeff Stein. Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Story of the Iraqi Nuclear & Biological Weapons Agenda (NY: Scribner, 2000).
Hazelton, Fran (ed.) Iraq since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy (London: Zed, 1994).
Heller, Mark A. The Iran-Iraq War: Implications for Third Parties (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1984).
Henderson, Simon. Instant Empire: Saddam Hussein's Ambition for Iraq
(San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991).
Hiro, Dilip. The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict (NY:
Routledge, 1991).
Hopwood, Derek; Habib Ishow & Thomas Koszinowski (eds.) Iraq: Power & Society (Reading: Ithaca, 1993).
Horwitz, Tony. Baghdad Without a Map, & Other Misadventures in Arabia (NY: Dutton, 1991).
Ingrams, Doreen. The Awakened: Women in Iraq (London: Third World Center, 1983).
Jabar, Faleh A. Ayatollahs, Sufis, & Ideologues: State, Religion & Social Movements (London: Saqi Books, 2002).
____________. Tribes & Power in the Middle East (London: Saqi Books, 2002).
Kay, John. Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East (?:?, 2003?).
Kelidar, Abbas (ed.) The Integration of Modern Iraq (London: Croom Helm, 1979).
Khayyat, Sana. Honour & Shame: Women in Modern Iraq (London: Saqi, 1990).
Longrigg, Stephen H. Iraq, 1900 to 1950: A Political, Social, & Economic History (NY: Oxford, 1953).
Lowther, William. Arms & the Man: Dr. Gerald Bull, Iraq, & the Supergun (Novato CA: Presidio, 1991).
Lukitz, Liora. Iraq: The Search for National Identity (Portland OR: Frank Cass, 1995).
Lyell, Thomas. Iraq & Imperialism: Thomas Lyell's The Ins & Outs of Mesopotamia (Cambridge: Allborough, 1991).
Mahdi, Kamil A. State & Agriculture in Iraq: Modern Development, Stagnation & the Impact of Oil (Reading: Ithaca, 2000).
Marr, Phoebe. The Modern History of Iraq (Boulder: Westview, 1985).
Mejcher, Helmut. Imperial Quest for Oil: Iraq, 1910-1928 (London: Ithaca, 1976).
Niblock, Tim (ed.) Iraq: The Contemporary State (NY: St. Martin's, 1982).
Penrose, Edith T. & E.F. Penrose. Iraq: International Relations & National Development (Boulder: Westview, 1978).
Rossi, Pierre. L'Irak des revoltes (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1962).
Saint-Prot, Charles. Histoire de l'Irak: de Sumer à Saddam Hussein (Paris: Ellipses, 1999).
Shikarah, Ahmad 'Abd al-Razzaq. Iraqi Politics, 1921-41: The Interaction Between Domestic Politics & Foreign Policy (London: LAAM, 1987).
Silverfarb, Daniel. Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1929-1941 (NY: Oxford, 1986).
__________. The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East: A Cast Study of Iraq, 1941-1950 (NY: St. martin's, 1994).
Simon, Reeva S. Iraq between the Two World Wars: The Creation & Implementation of a Nationalist Ideology (NY: Columbia, 1986).
Simons, Geoffrey L. Iraq: from Sumer to Saddam (NY: St. Martin's, 1994).
Tauber, Eliezer. The Formation of Modern Syria & Iraq (Portland OR: Frank Cass, 1995).
Tripp, Charles. A History of Iraq (NY: Cambridge, 2001).
In the Library: Fiction
Abu-Jaber, Diana. Crescent (NY: Norton, 200?).
Al Nasiri, Buthaina. Final Night: Short Stories (Cairo: American University, 2002).
Archer, Jeffrey. Honor Among Thieves (NY: HarperCollins, 1993).
Barth, John. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991).
Cassimy, Ali M. & W. McClung Frazie (eds.) Modern Iraqi Short Stories (Baghdad: Directorate General of Culture, 1971).
Farage, Saad W. The Spirit of Mesopotamia: A Novel (Alexandria VA: GeoMagna, 1999).
Khudayri, Batul. A Sky So Close (NY: Pantheon, 2001).
Kishtainy, Khalid. Tales from Old Baghdad: Grandma & I (London: Kegan Paul, 1997).
Mason, David. Shadow over Babylon (NY: Dutton, 1993).
Michael, Sami. Victoria (London: Macmillan, 1995).
Mikhail, Dunya. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (2nd ed.; Cairo: Ishtar, 1999).
Modaressi, Taghi. The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette (NY: Doubleday, 1989).
Yahia, Mona. When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad (London: Peter Halban, 2000).
In the Library: Poetry
Youssef, Saadi. Without An Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa; NY: Graywolf, 2003).
In the Library: Photography
Jadirji, Kamil. The Photography of Kamil Chadirji: Social Life in the Middle East, 1920-1940 (Surrey: LAAM Ltd., 1991).
Film & Video
"Arab Diaries: Work" [2001], dir. Ghalia Sheikh, Lubna Haddad, Abbas Hashim & Raed Helou, 26m. From First Run/Icarus. Hope & aspirations of Iraqi, Syrian & Palestinian men & women, as expressed in dreams of flying.
"Arab Diaries: Birth" [2001], dir. Suheir Farraj, Abbas Hashim & Abeer Esber, 26m. From First Run/Icarus. Issues for women surrounding birth in Iraq, Syria & Palestine.
"Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq" [2000], dir. John Pilger, 75m.
"Three Kings" [1999], dir. David O. Russell, 135m. In video stores.