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This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analyzing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio illuminates Iraq's political culture and the events that these expressions have both reflected and shaped. Not only does this study add to our unders...

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This text offers a comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries. Focusing on the strategic political chaos made by minorities, majorities and regimes in power, the authors point to probable future developments in majority-minority relations in the region.

Explores the dynamics of relations between the Kurds of Iraq and the Iraqi state from the inception of the Baath regime to the present. Ofra Bengio draws on a wealth of rich source materials to carefully trace the evolution of Kurdish national identity in Iraq. Dissecting the socioeconomic, political, and ideological transformations that Iraqi Kurdish society has undergone, she focuses on the twin processes of nation building and state building.

Kavissiz dümdüz bir yolda ilerleyebilecek hicbir yeni ve cüretkar fikir yoktur...Bir Israilli yetkilinin Türkiye-Israil iliskilerini tanimlamak icin kullandigi yukaridaki cümle Türkiye ve Israil arasindaki iliskilerin nasil bir yapiya sahip olduguna dönük iyi bir özettir. Ortadogunun en cok merak edilen ve üstünde bircok spekülasyon yapilan bölge ici iliskisi olan Türkiye Israil iliskileri cüretkar oldugu kadar utangacti. Cüretkardi cünkü büyü...

Kurdish Awakening examines key questions related to Kurdish nationalism and identity formation in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The world's largest stateless ethnic group, Kurds have steadily grown in importance as a political power in the Middle East, particularly in light of the "Arab Spring." As a result, Kurdish issues-political, cultural, and historical alike-have emerged as the subject of intense scholarly interest. This book provides f...

This book presents the crisis from two different angles: the onlooker's and the player's. The first part is an analysis of the aspirations and constraints that motivated Iraq in the war. The second is a selection of the speeches of its main protagonist, President Saddam Husayn. These speeches are indeed an indispensable source for understanding not just the crisis itself but also the political culture of Iraq and the man at its helm.