This a socio-historical article about the watch business in Iraq, the families that were involved in it and their contribution to the society. It discusses the introduction of clocks and watches to Iraq, as well as life and behaviour of an important segment of the Iraqi society. It also explains some of the habits, customs and traditions that characterized the Iraqi society during the end of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century, as well as some indicative political events that took place in that country.
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{"title":"In memoriam: Naïm Kattan (1928‐2021)","authors":"Gwen Hoover","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00068_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00068_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42828104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Analysis is made of the circumstances that could have led to the demise of a unique Iraqi Government educational initiative in the 1940s established in Baghdad of an elite secondary school with the name of King Faisal College. It was intended to provide special educational programmes while catering exclusively to gifted high school boy students chosen from all over the country. The analysis serves to show an abject example of how an educational project planned to serve the long-term national interests could be irreversibly damaged by petty political squabbles among its young students. It shows how political, religious and sectarian juvenal dogma could have been nurtured also by external interests targeting young students who were largely destined otherwise to have a very bright future.
{"title":"King Faisal College: An educational initiative in Baghdad, terminated in 1948","authors":"G. Karim","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00058_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00058_1","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis is made of the circumstances that could have led to the demise of a unique Iraqi Government educational initiative in the 1940s established in Baghdad of an elite secondary school with the name of King Faisal College. It was intended to provide special educational programmes\u0000 while catering exclusively to gifted high school boy students chosen from all over the country. The analysis serves to show an abject example of how an educational project planned to serve the long-term national interests could be irreversibly damaged by petty political squabbles among its\u0000 young students. It shows how political, religious and sectarian juvenal dogma could have been nurtured also by external interests targeting young students who were largely destined otherwise to have a very bright future.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47258938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The oil-rich Muslim Core, the Arab World, is far removed from a just and humane world, totally at variance with the grand promise of Islam, a perfect social contract initiated by the Prophet himself. The present article is a synopsis of a forthcoming book to be published in 2022 by Routledge. It uses a neo-Ottomanist framework for critical analysis to explain today’s complex challenges facing the Islamic world. Not everyone may be happy with the neo-Ottomanist approach chosen. The author only wishes to state that his study is not anti-Arab or anti-Islam, only the work of a social realist, relying on the latest statistical and historical data as much as possible.
{"title":"Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans: The Arab Middle East","authors":"Ö. Mehmet","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00056_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00056_1","url":null,"abstract":"The oil-rich Muslim Core, the Arab World, is far removed from a just and humane world, totally at variance with the grand promise of Islam, a perfect social contract initiated by the Prophet himself. The present article is a synopsis of a forthcoming book to be published in 2022 by\u0000 Routledge. It uses a neo-Ottomanist framework for critical analysis to explain today’s complex challenges facing the Islamic world. Not everyone may be happy with the neo-Ottomanist approach chosen. The author only wishes to state that his study is not anti-Arab or anti-Islam, only the\u0000 work of a social realist, relying on the latest statistical and historical data as much as possible.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44868236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is Not the Problem, Ömer Taspinar (2021)London: I.B. Tauris, 268 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78831-010-9, h/bk, $27.00
{"title":"What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is Not the Problem, Ömer Taspinar (2021)","authors":"Janice J. Terry","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00064_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00064_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: What the West is Getting Wrong about the Middle East: Why Islam is Not the Problem, Ömer Taspinar (2021)London: I.B. Tauris, 268 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78831-010-9, h/bk, $27.00","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42875160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With the British attack on Ottoman Iraq during the First World War, London and New Delhi focused on the country’s Shiites, imagining that they could incorporate the Shiite centres of authority into British India. The Iraqi Shiites were an object of competition between the Sunni Ottomans and the Christian British. During the war, 1914‐18, British generals and administrators deployed a series of images of Iraqi Shiite Muslims, from pragmatic and likely willing to cooperate with a powerful and triumphant empire, to hopelessly irredentist. During the war I argue that officials deployed a set of images of Iraqi Shiites for purposes of their own and the metropolitan public’s morale as well as for propaganda among the colonized. Sometimes British Orientalist beliefs that the Shiites could be wooed from the Sunni Ottomans led them into disaster.
{"title":"British policy towards the Iraqi Shiites during the First World War","authors":"Juan Cole","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00055_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00055_1","url":null,"abstract":"With the British attack on Ottoman Iraq during the First World War, London and New Delhi focused on the country’s Shiites, imagining that they could incorporate the Shiite centres of authority into British India. The Iraqi Shiites were an object of competition between the Sunni\u0000 Ottomans and the Christian British. During the war, 1914‐18, British generals and administrators deployed a series of images of Iraqi Shiite Muslims, from pragmatic and likely willing to cooperate with a powerful and triumphant empire, to hopelessly irredentist. During the war I argue\u0000 that officials deployed a set of images of Iraqi Shiites for purposes of their own and the metropolitan public’s morale as well as for propaganda among the colonized. Sometimes British Orientalist beliefs that the Shiites could be wooed from the Sunni Ottomans led them into disaster.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43210937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s notes","authors":"T. Ismael","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00053_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00053_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43139441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: The Seizure of Saddam Hussein’s Archive of Atrocity, Bruce P. Montgomery (2019)Maryland, MD: Lexington Books, 258 pp.,ISBN 978-1-49855-697-2, h/bk, $95ISBN 978-1-49855-698-9, e/bk, $90State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Lisa Blaydes (2018)Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 376 pp.,ISBN 978-0-69118-027-4, h/bk, $35ISBN 978-0-69121-175-6, p/bk, $24.95Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq, Samuel Helfont (2018)New York: Oxford University Press, 304 pp.,ISBN 978-0-19084-331-1, h/bk, $38.95ISBN 978-0-19084-331-4, e/bk, $38.95
{"title":"The archives of Saddam Hussein’s regime between historical sources and subjects","authors":"Michael Brill","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00061_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00061_7","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Seizure of Saddam Hussein’s Archive of Atrocity, Bruce P. Montgomery (2019)Maryland, MD: Lexington Books, 258 pp.,ISBN 978-1-49855-697-2, h/bk, $95ISBN 978-1-49855-698-9, e/bk, $90State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein,\u0000 Lisa Blaydes (2018)Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 376 pp.,ISBN 978-0-69118-027-4, h/bk, $35ISBN 978-0-69121-175-6, p/bk, $24.95Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq, Samuel Helfont (2018)New\u0000 York: Oxford University Press, 304 pp.,ISBN 978-0-19084-331-1, h/bk, $38.95ISBN 978-0-19084-331-4, e/bk, $38.95","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49576303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naming atrocity: Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011, curated by Peter Eleey and Ruba Katrib MoMA PS1, New York, 3 November 2019–1 March 2020
{"title":"Naming Atrocity: Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011, curated by Peter Eleey and Ruba Katrib","authors":"Kenan Van de Mieroop","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00049_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00049_7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Naming atrocity: Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011, curated by Peter Eleey and Ruba Katrib\u0000MoMA PS1, New York, 3 November 2019–1 March 2020","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49203421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rifat al-Chadirji (1926–2020): Designing a transhistorical Iraq","authors":"N. Rabbat","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00052_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00052_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49000928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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