{"title":"Petroleum Fiscal Systems, Erik T. Jarlsby and Eduardo G. Pereira (2018)","authors":"A. Jiyad","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00033_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00033_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Petroleum Fiscal Systems, Erik T. Jarlsby and Eduardo G. Pereira (2018)Oklahoma, OK: PennWell Books, 471 pp.,ISBN 978-1-59370-480-3, h/bk, $119","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42652389","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}
A review of the works of Iraqi writer Kareem Ketafa identifies a common thematic invocation of fleeing, widely shared across the characters developed in each novel, that situates them all as at the indeterminate liminal line between forgetting past lives and embracing the memories those lives invoke. By centring Ketafa’s Iraqi origins the focus on its role in his literary imagination and ability to invoke the reality of past suffering and intense personal pain in how they shape character. This reading allows for an engagement with the arc of Ketafa’s plots, where actions allow for movement beyond individual flight and a familiarity with the fourth dimension that contributes to shaping one’s life story.
{"title":"No one crosses the river of oblivion: Reading the narrative experience in Kareem Ketafa’s works","authors":"Zuher Karim","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00029_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00029_1","url":null,"abstract":"A review of the works of Iraqi writer Kareem Ketafa identifies a common thematic invocation of fleeing, widely shared across the characters developed in each novel, that situates them all as at the indeterminate liminal line between forgetting past lives and embracing the memories those\u0000 lives invoke. By centring Ketafa’s Iraqi origins the focus on its role in his literary imagination and ability to invoke the reality of past suffering and intense personal pain in how they shape character. This reading allows for an engagement with the arc of Ketafa’s plots, where\u0000 actions allow for movement beyond individual flight and a familiarity with the fourth dimension that contributes to shaping one’s life story.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42025329","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: A Broken Trust: Sir Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians, Sahar Huneidi, foreword by Walid Khalidi (2001)London: I. B. Tauris, 340 pp.,ISBN 978-1-86064-172-5, h/bk, out-of-printThe Palestine Deception, 1915‐1923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Balfour Declaration, and the Jewish National Home, J. M. N. Jeffries, edited and with an introduction by William M. Mathew (2014)Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies-USA, 175 pp.,ISBN 978-0-88728-320-8, p/bk, $16.00Palestine. The Reality. The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration 1917‐1938, J. M. N. Jeffries, with a new introduction by Ghada Karmi (2017)Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 800 pp.,ISBN 978-1-56656-024-5, p/bk, $30Israel’s Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict, Walter L. Hixson (2019)Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 324 pp.,ISBN 978-1-108-70532-5, p/bk, $29.99
回顾:破碎的信任:赫伯特·塞缪尔爵士，犹太复国主义和巴勒斯坦人，Sahar Huneidi, Walid Khalidi的前言(2001)伦敦:i.b. Tauris, 340页，ISBN 978-1-86064-172-5, h/bk，绝版。巴勒斯坦骗局，1915 - 1923:麦克马洪-侯赛因通信，贝尔福宣言和犹太民族家园，J. M. N. Jeffries，由William M. Mathew编辑并介绍(2014)华盛顿特区:美国巴勒斯坦研究所，175页，ISBN 978-0-88728-320-8, p/bk, 16.00美元。现实。《1917 - 1938年贝尔福宣言的内幕》，j.m.n.杰弗里斯，加达·卡尔米(2017)北安普顿，马萨诸塞州:橄榄枝出版社，800页，ISBN 978-1-56656-024-5, p/bk, 30美元《以色列的盔甲:以色列游说团和第一代巴勒斯坦冲突》，沃尔特·希克森(2019)剑桥和纽约:剑桥大学出版社，324页，ISBN 978-1-108-70532-5, p/bk, 29.99美元
{"title":"Zionism lobbies the empires","authors":"H. F. Clark","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00034_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00034_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: A Broken Trust: Sir Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians, Sahar Huneidi, foreword by Walid Khalidi (2001)London: I. B. Tauris, 340 pp.,ISBN 978-1-86064-172-5, h/bk, out-of-printThe Palestine Deception, 1915‐1923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence,\u0000 the Balfour Declaration, and the Jewish National Home, J. M. N. Jeffries, edited and with an introduction by William M. Mathew (2014)Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies-USA, 175 pp.,ISBN 978-0-88728-320-8, p/bk, $16.00Palestine. The Reality. The Inside\u0000 Story of the Balfour Declaration 1917‐1938, J. M. N. Jeffries, with a new introduction by Ghada Karmi (2017)Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 800 pp.,ISBN 978-1-56656-024-5, p/bk, $30Israel’s Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the\u0000 Palestine Conflict, Walter L. Hixson (2019)Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 324 pp.,ISBN 978-1-108-70532-5, p/bk, $29.99","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48304235","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}
An examination and critique of the New York Times (NYT) publication of ‘The ISIS files’, a series of articles and podcasts compiled by reporter Rukmini Callimachi, based on more than 15,000 documents removed from Iraq without permission from the relevant Iraqi authorities. The NYT reportage featured a number of these documents, published in unredacted form, demonstrating a complete disregard for the myriad legal, professional, ethical and moral issues involved. Such issues have been aired in recent years in relation to the handling of other collections of documents arising from the US invasion. This intervention examines the use of these documents, their disposition and future access, arguing that the actions of the NYT represented a neo-imperial mindset directly impacting not only the documents, but also their use in knowledge production. Such production has seen Iraqis denied access to their cultural property as well as the opportunity to control their own records and write their own histories.
{"title":"‘The ISIS files’: Learning the lessons of history?","authors":"L. Brand, Judith E. Tucker","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00023_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00023_1","url":null,"abstract":"An examination and critique of the New York Times (NYT) publication of ‘The ISIS files’, a series of articles and podcasts compiled by reporter Rukmini Callimachi, based on more than 15,000 documents removed from Iraq without permission from the relevant Iraqi\u0000 authorities. The NYT reportage featured a number of these documents, published in unredacted form, demonstrating a complete disregard for the myriad legal, professional, ethical and moral issues involved. Such issues have been aired in recent years in relation to the handling of other\u0000 collections of documents arising from the US invasion. This intervention examines the use of these documents, their disposition and future access, arguing that the actions of the NYT represented a neo-imperial mindset directly impacting not only the documents, but also their use in\u0000 knowledge production. Such production has seen Iraqis denied access to their cultural property as well as the opportunity to control their own records and write their own histories.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48194615","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":"Dr Derek Hopwood OBE (27 June 1933‐23 March 2020)","authors":"E. Rogan","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00014_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00014_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66724204","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}
In the 1970s, cultural and political currents aligned, enabling Assyrian migrants from northern Iraq who were visible in urban centres, given their activism within the Iraqi Left, to benefit from cultural concessions granted by the Iraqi state. These currents were in accordance with a global movement intrigued by folklore, but also politicized by an Iraqi state focused on the appropriation of folklore for the purposes of expanding its hegemony. I explore the hybridized and multilingual Iraqi cultural space by examining Iraqi publications ‐ not only general circulation magazines concerned with folklore, women and leftist politics, but also bilingual publications in Arabic and neo-Aramaic produced by the Assyrian community, and particularly the Alqoshis. With its multilingual bazaar and historic role as See of the Church of the East, Alqosh can be seen as a precursor to the pluralistic cultural scene experienced in urban Iraqi centres of the 1970s.
{"title":"Village nostalgia: Assyrians, folklore and the hybrid intellectual sphere in modern Iraq","authors":"Alda Benjamen","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00020_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00020_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1970s, cultural and political currents aligned, enabling Assyrian migrants from northern Iraq who were visible in urban centres, given their activism within the Iraqi Left, to benefit from cultural concessions granted by the Iraqi state. These currents were in accordance with\u0000 a global movement intrigued by folklore, but also politicized by an Iraqi state focused on the appropriation of folklore for the purposes of expanding its hegemony. I explore the hybridized and multilingual Iraqi cultural space by examining Iraqi publications ‐ not only general circulation\u0000 magazines concerned with folklore, women and leftist politics, but also bilingual publications in Arabic and neo-Aramaic produced by the Assyrian community, and particularly the Alqoshis. With its multilingual bazaar and historic role as See of the Church of the East, Alqosh can be seen as\u0000 a precursor to the pluralistic cultural scene experienced in urban Iraqi centres of the 1970s.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43479952","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}
This piece presents an exploration of the conditions of the remaining archives and libraries in Nineveh in the aftermath of Islamic State (IS). Civilians preserved, recovered and restored important sources and libraries that were at risk of being looted or destroyed by IS or damaged or lost during the 2016 liberation campaign.
{"title":"Resistance, resilience and recovery: Archives and libraries in post-liberation Nineveh","authors":"Sara Farhan","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00024_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00024_1","url":null,"abstract":"This piece presents an exploration of the conditions of the remaining archives and libraries in Nineveh in the aftermath of Islamic State (IS). Civilians preserved, recovered and restored important sources and libraries that were at risk of being looted or destroyed by IS or damaged\u0000 or lost during the 2016 liberation campaign.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47411839","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: City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk, Arbella Bet-Shlimon (2019)Stanford: Stanford University Press, 296 pp.,ISBN 978-1-50360-812-2, h/bk, $85ISBN 978-1-50360-913-6, p/bk, $14.25ISBN 978-1-50360-914-3, e/bk, $26.56
评论：《黑金之城：石油、种族和现代基尔库克的形成》，Arbella Bet Shlimon（2019）斯坦福：斯坦福大学出版社，296页，ISBN 978-1-50360-812-2，h/bk，$85ISBN 978-1-50360-913-6，p/bk，$14.25ISBN 978-1 50360-914-3，e/bk，$26.56
{"title":"City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk, Arbella Bet-Shlimon (2019)","authors":"C. Cole","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00026_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00026_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk, Arbella Bet-Shlimon (2019)Stanford: Stanford University Press, 296 pp.,ISBN 978-1-50360-812-2, h/bk, $85ISBN 978-1-50360-913-6, p/bk, $14.25ISBN 978-1-50360-914-3, e/bk,\u0000 $26.56","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42049021","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}
Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of Gyanendra Pandey’s work on the construction of minorityhood in India, this article explores how Kurds became a minority in the context of foreign intervention in the Ottoman Empire and how a new discourse surrounding ‘minorities’, citizenship and rights became elements in a wider discourse on modernity, civilization, sovereignty, identity, citizenship and power. This article ultimately traces the minoritization of the Kurds and how Kurds became minoritized after, but along with, Armenians. Of particular interest in the present study is how fresh thinking in the field of borderlands history can help illuminate other angles of the minoritization process, here, namely, its connection to territoriality. Thus, here I add to Pandey’s concept of ‘marked citizenship’ to reflect on what I call ‘marked territoriality’ as the companion feature in the process of making minorities. I also suggest that the case study I explore in this article may help us tweak the periodization of territoriality itself.
{"title":"The Kurds and the territorialization of minorityhood","authors":"Janet Klein","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00016_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00016_1","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of Gyanendra Pandey’s work on the construction of minorityhood in India, this article explores how Kurds became a minority in the context of foreign intervention in the Ottoman Empire and how a new discourse surrounding ‘minorities’,\u0000 citizenship and rights became elements in a wider discourse on modernity, civilization, sovereignty, identity, citizenship and power. This article ultimately traces the minoritization of the Kurds and how Kurds became minoritized after, but along with, Armenians. Of particular interest\u0000 in the present study is how fresh thinking in the field of borderlands history can help illuminate other angles of the minoritization process, here, namely, its connection to territoriality. Thus, here I add to Pandey’s concept of ‘marked citizenship’ to reflect on what I\u0000 call ‘marked territoriality’ as the companion feature in the process of making minorities. I also suggest that the case study I explore in this article may help us tweak the periodization of territoriality itself.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/jciaw_00016_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43347935","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 article explores the author’s experience of crafting legal actions meant to bring a case against the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom for the genocidal conditions that arose from their actions against the people of Iraq from 1991 to 2003. Based on a similar effort, successfully brought to the International Court of Justice on behalf of the people and Republic of Bosnia in 1993, the strong potential for a legal and peaceful remedy to bring an end to Iraqi civilian suffering ‐ as well as the potential to avert a future war ‐ existed and drove the author to implore Iraqi legal action before the ICJ. Iraqi state officials, from the President’s Office to that of Deputy PM Tariq Aziz, through Iraqi diplomats in New York, were canvassed and engaged in an effort for the author to receive their support to act on Iraq’s behalf at the ICJ. Published here is the author’s recollection of this effort to prosecute international crimes against the Iraqi people as well as an overview of the ICJ case that while never brought forward, could have prevented the 2003 invasion and its aftermath.
{"title":"The world court lawsuits by the Republic of Iraq against the United States and the United Kingdom","authors":"F. Boyle","doi":"10.1386/jciaw_00008_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00008_1","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the author’s experience of crafting legal actions meant to bring a case against the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom for the genocidal conditions that arose from their actions against the people of Iraq from 1991 to 2003. Based on a\u0000 similar effort, successfully brought to the International Court of Justice on behalf of the people and Republic of Bosnia in 1993, the strong potential for a legal and peaceful remedy to bring an end to Iraqi civilian suffering ‐ as well as the potential to avert a future war ‐\u0000 existed and drove the author to implore Iraqi legal action before the ICJ. Iraqi state officials, from the President’s Office to that of Deputy PM Tariq Aziz, through Iraqi diplomats in New York, were canvassed and engaged in an effort for the author to receive their support to act on\u0000 Iraq’s behalf at the ICJ. Published here is the author’s recollection of this effort to prosecute international crimes against the Iraqi people as well as an overview of the ICJ case that while never brought forward, could have prevented the 2003 invasion and its aftermath.","PeriodicalId":36575,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48736154","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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