Iraqi History, Culture & Politics: March and April
This recommended reading shelf presents texts and films that showcase Iraq's history, culture, and politics. The book display is meant to accompany a photographic exhibition featuring the work of photographer, poet, journalist, and Master of Arts in Arab Studies student Nabil Salih marking 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. We encourage readers to visit the exhibition A Requiem for Baghdad: Postcards from a Crime Scene in the Gelardin Gallery on the 1st floor of Lauinger Library on display between March and June 2023. Nabil's photographs are accompanied by an interview about the exhibition.
Nabil, alongside Middle East Studies Librarian Ryan Zohar, compiled a list of books on Iraq that will be displayed to coincide with the exhibition. Many of the works discuss the U.S. invasion and events leading up to it but we wanted to move beyond a focus on Iraq as a locus for death and destruction as well. The display is an invitation for students and educators alike to sift through the pages and learn not only of Iraq’s history and politics, but its rich literature, art, and even photography. Among the works included are works of Iraqi poet, novelist, and scholar Sinan Antoon, Hanna Batatu’s book on the history of modern Iraq, Nesma Shubber’s new book on Iraqi artist Suad al-Attar, the poetry of Saadi Youssef, and Latif al-Ani’s photography.
Books and Videos on Exhibit
DS79.76 .A26 2004
Against all odds : voices of popular struggle in IraqDS79.76 .I87 2015
Issa, Ali
![Cover art for the book Art in Iraq today = [Fann fī al-ʻIrāq al-yawm]](https://syndetics.com/index.php?client=primo&isbn=8857211576/sc.jpg)
Art in Iraq today = [Fann fī al-ʻIrāq al-yawm]N7267 .A78 2011
DS79.76 .J325 2004
Jābirī, ʻAlī
N7269.A98 A4 1984
Azzawi, Dia
Badr Shaker al Sayab : selected poemsPJ7862.A93 A1713 2001
Sayyāb, Badr Shākir
Baghdad : the city in versePJ8047.B25 B34 2013
Baghdad diaries : a woman's chronicle of war and exileN7269.A47 A2 2003
Radi, Nuha
JQ1825.I773 H52 1970
Ḥizb al-Shuyūʻī al-ʻIrāqī.,
Basra, the failed Gulf state : separatism and nationalism in southern IraqDS79.9.B3 V57 2005
Visser, Reidar
Contemporary Iraqi fiction : an anthologyPJ8046.5.E5 C66 2008
Contemporary plays from IraqPJ8045.5.E5 C66 2017
Dia al-Azzawi taking a stand : activism through graphic designN7269.A98 H35 2017
Hakim, Lina
Dictatorship, imperialism and chaos : Iraq since 1989DS79.75 .A23 2006
Abdullah, Thabit.
PJ7846.A52 A17 1979
Malāʼikah, Nāzik.
PJ7750.M8 A17 1995
Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn
Dreaming of BaghdadPJ7876.A647 F513 2009
Zangana, Haifa
PJ7862 .A93 1971
Sayyāb, Badr Shākir
PJ7840.A85 A17 1973
Jawāhirī, Muḥammad Mahdī
Familiar futures : time, selfhood, and sovereignty in IraqHC415.4.Z9 P87 2019
Pursley, Sara
Flowers of flame: unheard voices of IraqPJ8044.5.E5 F46 2008
DS113.8.I72 F67 2004
PJ8047.N4 Q24 2004
Qāmūsī, Muḥammad Riḍā
PJ7852.A644 F883 2011
Naqqāsh, Samīr
PJ7824.A73 Z73 2004
Jāsim, Fāṭimah ʻĪsá
DS79.75 .H66 2016
PJ7816.U54 I34 1998
Būluṣ, Sarkūn
Iraq + 100 : stories from a century after the invasionPJ8046.5.E5 I73 2016
Iraq + 100 : the first anthology of science fiction to have emerged from IraqPJ8046.5.E5 I737 2017
Iraq : how, where, for whom? = al-ʻIrāq: Kayfa, Ayna, li-man?N7269.M35 A4 2012
Malallah, Hanaa'
Iraqi poetry todayPJ8044.5.E5 I73 2003
ND967 .S35 1977
Salīm, Niẓār
La guerre en Irak, le livre noir : documentsDS79.76 G947 2004
Latif Al AniTR820.5 .A535 2017
ʻĀnī, Laṭīf
Le roman arabe (1834-2004) : bilan critiquePJ7577 .H384 2006
Jihād, Kāẓim
Les poèmes de DjaykoûrPJ7862.A93 A16 2000
Sayyāb, Badr Shākir
Mass deception : moral panic and the U.S. war on IraqDS79.76 .B657 2010
Bonn, Scott A.
PJ7874.U84 M88 1994
Yūsuf, Saʻdī
PJ8034 .M84 2004
Muḥsin, Jawād ʻAbd al-Kāẓim
DS79.76M936 2006
Neo-conned! again : hypocrisy, lawlessness, and the rape of Iraq : the illegality and the injustice of the Second Gulf WarDS79.76 .N46 2005
Night draws near : Iraq's people in the shadow of America's warDS79.76 .S52 2005
Shadid, Anthony.
PJ5054.B23 O8612 1997
Ballas, Shimon
Open shutters IraqDS79.762 .O64 2010
OutcastPJ5054.B23 O88 2007
Ballas, Shimon
Overreach : delusions of regime change in IraqDS79.757 .M55 2014
MacDonald, Michael
Pages from the biography of an exilePJ7862.A52735 A2 2016
Ṣāʼigh, ʻAdnān
PJ7874.U84 Q27 2013
Yūsuf, Saʻdī
PJ7874.U84 Q27 2009
Yūsuf, Saʻdī
Rasāʼil Nāzik al-Malāʼikah : rasāʼil makhṭūṭah lam tunshar (1948-1985)PJ7846.A52 Z481 2002
Malāʼikah, Nāzik
Résistances irakiennes : contre l'occupation, l'islamisme, et le capitalismeDS79.76 .R47 2006
Shiʻrīyat al-anqāḍ : yawmiyāt al-ḥarb ʻalá al-ʻIrāqDS79.76 .N35 2004
Najmī, Ḥasan
Shoot an Iraqi : art, life and resistance under the gunN7269.B55 A2 2008
Bilal, Wafaa.
Strokes of genius : contemporary Iraqi artN7267 .S76 2001
Suad Al-AttarND969.A48 S58 2022
Shubber, Nesma
Tenants and cobwebsPJ7852.A63 N8913 2018
Naqqāsh, Samīr
The Baghdad bluesPJ7914.N88 B33 2007
Antoon, Sinan
PJ7750.M8 A28 1995
Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn
The Iraqi ChristPJ7916.A42 I73713 2013
Balāsim, Ḥasan
The Iraqi novel : key writers, key textsPJ8042 .C356 2013
Caiani, Fabio
The corpse exhibition and other stories of IraqPJ7916.A42 A2 2014
Balāsim, Ḥasan.
The madman of Freedom SquarePJ7916.L37 M34 2009
Balāsim, Ḥasan.
The old social classes and the revolutionary movements of Iraq : a study of Iraq's old landed and commercial classes and of its Communists, Baʻthists, and Free OfficersJQ1825.I773 S493
Batatu, Hanna
The poetry of Sadi Yusuf : between homeland and exilePJ7874.U84 Z685 2006
Huri, Yair.
The prose works of Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman : the city and the beastPJ7824.A73 Z78 2018
Peled-Shapira, Hilla
PJ8044 .R58 2010
The road to Iraq : the making of a neoconservative warDS79.757 .A36 2014
Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees
The tobacco keeperPJ7916.A237 H2713 2011
Badr, ʻAlī.
Uncovering Iraq : trajectories of disintegration and transformationJQ1825.I773 S4939 2010
Unembedded : four independent photojournalists on the war in IraqDS79.762 .U54 2005
War and occupation in Iraqi fictionPJ8042 .M37 2015
Masmoudi, Ikram
Weapons of mass deception : the uses of propaganda in Bush's war on IraqDS79.76 .R36 2003
Rampton, Sheldon
Without an alphabet, without a face : selected poemsPJ7874.U84 W58 2002
Yūsuf, Saʻdī.
Women on a journey : between Baghdad and LondonPJ7876.A647 N5713 2007
Zangana, Haifa
PJ7846.A52 Y84 1998
Malāʼikah, Nāzik
PJ7874.U84 D593 2010
Yūsuf, Saʻdī
al-Iḥtilāl al-Amrīkī lil-ʻIrāq : al-mashhad al-akhīrDS79.76 .I36 2007
PJ7862 .A93 M28 1968
Sayyāb, Badr Shākir
al-Nakhlah wa-al-jīrān : riwāyahPJ7824.A73 N3 2009
Farmān, Ghāʼib Ṭuʻmah
ND967 .A233 2004
ʻAbd al-Amīr, ʻĀṣim
JQ1825.I77 S49319 1990
Batatu, Hanna
al-ʻIrāq taḥta al-iḥtilāl : tadmīr al-dawlah wa-takrīs al-fawḍáDS79.76 .I62 2008
al-Ḥarb al-ʻIrāqīyah al-Amrīkīyah : yawman bi-yawm, min 17 Mārs 2003 M ilá 17 Abrīl 2003 MDS79.76 .J39 2003
Jawf, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm
ʻAshr sanawāt hazzat al-ʻālam : ʻaqd ʻalá iḥtilāl al-ʻIrāq, 2003-2013 = A decade that shook the world : occupation of Iraq 2003-2013DS79.76 .A844 2015
PJ7942.A824 H56 2008
Kaṭāfah, Karīm
PJ7832.A816 H3 1996
Bulus, Sarkūn
