Notes on history of Iraq (PowerPoint 4/12/05)
Note the following web site (Thanks, Morgan, for finding it): Country Studies http://countrystudies.us/This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998. Each study offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy.
This site has studies of many many countries. The link Brandon provides is one section in a very large book or compilation. No authors are given.
Student-selected readings
Barbara Neichiol
Faleh A. Jabar, Postconflict Iraq - A Race for Stability, Reconstruction, and Legitimacy. http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr120.html
Jayme Moehle
Religion and Ethics NewsweeklyReligion and Ethics Newsweekly. Sunni/Shiite Relations in Post War Iraq. 4/2/03 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week631/news.html
Cejae Cross
Iraq: The Role of Tribes
www.cfr.org/pub7681/sharon_otterman/ iraq_the_role_of_tribes.php
Kia Michalegko
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1163907,00.html
Jennifer DiGirolamo
IRAQ IN TRANSITION. [text posted] By Evan Osnos and Colin McMahon. Chicago Tribune foreign correspondents Published January 24, 2005 - Iraq election teeters on cultural split Issues of religion, tribalism and ethnicity are shaping campaigns.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0501240218jan24,1,7955089.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Julie Clark
IRAQ IN BLACK. Labbe, Theola. Crisis (The New); Mar/Apr2004, Vol. 111 Issue 2, p20-6
Abstract: Describes the status of Blacks in Iraq. Bases of distinction among races in the country; History of slavery in the Middle East; Social interactions between Arab Iraqis and Iraqis of African descent.
http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=12812369
Kim Stakel
http://arabic-media.com/iraq_history.htm
[NOTE: This site is undated, but the history it gives ends before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Ryan Iehl
Iraq: The Role of Tribes. Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/pub7681/sharon_otterman/iraq_the_role_of_tribes.php [same as Cejae Cross]
Sara Szoke
"Ayatollah 1, First Amendment 0." Jeffrey, Terence P. Human Events; 12/15/2003, Vol. 59 Issue 43, p4, 2/3p, 1bw
Abstract: Offers views on the interpretation of freedom of speech and religion by member of the Iraqi Governing Council Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Punishment of converts from Islam; Comment given by U.S. President George W. Bush about the consistency of Islam with democratic rule; Issue over who will decide what contradicts Islam in Iraq. http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=11686335
Rachel Pepper
Benedickter, Roland."Overcoming Ethnic Divisions in Iraq: A Practical Model from Europe" In the National Interest
http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol3Issue6/Vol3Issue6Benedikter.html
*Morgan Brandon
informative article convering iraqi indigenous people/issues http://countrystudies.us/iraq/40.htm. S. Library of Congress
Khadidja Arfi.
Elections Are Not Democracy. Zakaria, Fareed Newsweek; 2/7/2005, Vol. 145 Issue 6, p30, 1p, 1c
Abstract: Critiques the political significance of elections in Iraq held on January 30, 2005. View that the prospect for a stable democratic society in Iraq is poor; Potential impact of ethnic and religious divisions on the formation of a democratic society in Iraq; Issues impacting the management of Iraq's oil revenues; Importance of the rule of law in Iraq's political development.
http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=15871679
Chris Schilling
http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistan6/27-3-05-opinion-baqi-federalism-question-of-ethnicity.html
Mandy Nelson
Prospect of Democracy Breeding Ethnic Hatred in Iraq, by Randall Parker. http://www.parapundit.com/archives/001962.html
This is a libertarian site. The article is an argument, with links to those he is arguing with.
Marissa Collum
Daniel Bishop
