Iraq News News Iraq » History: The History of Iraq
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, 127 pp, $45. The History of Iraq is a Cliff’s Notes to Iraq’s past that, according to its foreword, seeks to provide “students and interested laypeople with [an ...
News Iraq » History: Remembering Iraq Without Rewriting History
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Professors and pundits widely condemn the decision to liberate Iraq. History will show the critics to be wrong. Announcing the start ...
News Iraq » History: The invasion of Iraq defined US’ foreign relations – but in popular Iraqi literature, the war is just a piece of the country’s complex history
It’s been just over 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq. Some Americans have largely forgotten about the invasion, despite the fact the Sept. 11 attacks that precipitated it still loom large ...
News Iraq » History: Occupying Iraq: A British History
As U.S. forces advance toward Baghdad, some are headed for the eastern Iraqi city of Al Kut. If history is any judge, that could be a mistake. During World War I, when the British invaded Iraq — then ...
News Iraq » History: Book Review: ‘Land Between the Rivers,’ by Bartle Bull
A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history. Share full ...
News Iraq » History: From Mesopotamia to Iraq : a concise history / Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine ; translated by Hans J. Nissen
Landscape, climate, population -- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE) -- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE) -- City-states and the way toward the ...
News Iraq » History: Phebe Marr, scholar of Iraq’s history and upheavals, dies at 93
In 1957, a 26-year-old American woman carrying an English-Arabic dictionary and an address in Baghdad boarded a bus in Beirut for a two-day journey to Iraq’s capital. She had grown tired of the ...
News Iraq » History: Enslaved Africans, an uprising and an ancient farming system in Iraq: study sheds light on timelines
Written accounts tell the story of the Zanj rebellion – a slave revolt that took place in the late 9th century in southern Iraq. Some of the rebels were enslaved Africans working in various sectors of ...
News Iraq » History: Iraq History Lesson
"Today the guns are silent. . . . The entire world is quietly at peace." So said Douglas MacArthur in September 1945. Last week, seeing that quotation, now inscribed in stone at the new National World ...