Research

Books

ANCIENT

Brown, Dale M. (Editor). Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings. Time-Life, 1995.

_________. Sumer: Cities of Eden. Time-Life, 1994.

Crawford, Harriet. Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Dalley, Stephanie (Editor). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Oates, Joan. Babylon. Thames & Hudson, 1986.

Oppenheim, A. Leo. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization. University of Chicago, 1977.

Nemet-Nejat, Karen Rhea. Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998.

Postgate, Nicholas. Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. Routledge, 1994.

Roaf, Michael, and Nicholas Postgate (Editors). The Cultural Atlas of Mesopatamia and the Ancient Near East. Checkmark Books, 1990.

Roux, George. Ancient Iraq. Penguin, 1993.

Russell, John Malcolm. The Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of King Sennacherib's

Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq. Yale University Press, 1998.

Van De Mieroop, Marc. Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History. Routledge, 1999.

IRAQI HISTORY AND POLITICS TO 1900

SOURCES

Aburish,Said. Saddam Hussein. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999. Karsh, Efraim and Inari Rautsi. Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography. Free Press, 1991.

Simons, G. L. Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam. St. Martin's Press, 1994.

OTTOMAN

Fattah, Hala. The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia and the Gulf, 1745-1900. State Univ. New York, 1997.

Guest, John. The Ancient Road: From Aleppo to Baghdad in the Days of the Ottoman Empire. Kegan Paul, 1999.

Litwak, Meir. Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala'. Cambridge, 1998.

Longrigg, Stephen. Four Centuries of Modern Iraq. Librarie du Liban, 1925.

ISLAMIC

Lestrange, Guy. Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983.

El Sakkakini, Widad. First Among Sufis: The Life and Thought of Rabia Al-Adawiyya. ISHK Book Service, 1992.

IRAQI HISTORY AND POLITICS,1918-1979

GENERAL SOURCES

Batatu, Hanna. The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Ireland, Philip Willard. Iraq: A Study in Political Development. Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1937.

Simons, G. L. Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam. St. Martin's Press, 1994. Sluglett, Marion Farouk and Peter. Iraq Since 1958:

From Revolution to Dictatorship. Routledge, 1987. Kelidar, Abbas. The Integration of Modern Iraq. St. Martin's, 1979.

Marr, Phebe. The Modern History of Iraq. Westview Press, 1985.

REPUBLICAN AND EARLY BA'ATHIST IRAQ

Baram, Amatzia. Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'athist Iraq. Macmillan, 1991. Batatu, Hanna. The

Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi Revolutions. Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1984.

Dann, Uriel. Iraq Under Qassem. Israel Universities Press, 1969.

Fernea, Robert and Louis, William, eds. Iraq's Revolution of 1958: The Old Social Classes Revisited. I. B. Tauris and Company, 1991.

Khadduri, Majid. Republican Iraq. Oxford University Press, 1969.

__________. Socialist Iraq. Middle East Institute, 1978.

Ministry of Information, Iraq. The 1968 Revolution in Iraq: The Political Report of the Eighth Congress of the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party in Iraq, January 1974. Ithaca, 1979.

Pachachi, Adnan. Iraq's Voice at the United Nations, 1959-69. Librarie du Liban.

MONARCHY AND MANDATORY IRAQ

Birdwood, Lord. Nuri as-Said: A Study in Arab Leadership. Cassell and Company, 1959.

Davis, Paul. Ends and Means: The British Mesopotamian Campaign and Commission. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.

Eliot, Matthew. Independent Iraq: The Monarchy and British Influence, 1941-58. I.B. Tauris, 1996.

Eppel, Michael. The Palestine Conflict in the History of Modern Iraq: The Dynamics of Involvement, 1928-1948. Frank Cass & Co., 1994.

Gallman, Waldemar. Iraq Under General Nuri: My Recollections of Nuri al-Said, 1954-1958. Johns Hopkins Press, 1964.

Haj, Samira. The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power, and Ideology. State University of New York, 1997.

Khadduri, Majid. Independent Iraq, 1932-1958: A Study in Iraqi Politics. AMS Press, 1980.

Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley. Iraq 1900-1950: A Political, Social and Economic History. Librairie de Liban, 1953.

Lukitz, Liora. Iraq: The Search for National Identity. Frank Cass & Co., 1995.

Shores, Christopher. Dust Clouds in the Middle East: The Air War for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Madagascar, 1940-1942. 1996.

Silverfarb, Daniel. The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1941-1950. St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Simon, Reeva S. Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Creation and Implementation of a Nationalist Ideology. Columbia University Press, 1986.

Sluglett, Peter. Britain in Iraq, 1914-1932. Ithaca, 1976.

Tarbush, Muhammad. The Role of the Military in Politics: A Case of Study of Iraq to 1941. KPI, 1982.

Tauber, Eliezer. The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq. Frank Cass & Co., 1995.

IRAQI HISTORY AND POLITICS, 1979 TO THE PRESENT

GENERAL SOURCES

Baram, Amatzia. Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'athist Iraq. Macmillan, 1991.

Bengio, Ofra. Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq. Oxford University Press, 1998.

CARDRI (Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq). Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or Reaction? Zed Books, 1986.

Helms, Christine. Iraq: Eastern Flank of the Arab World. Brookings Institute, 1984.

Hiltermann, Joost (Editor). Bureaucracy of Repression: The Iraqi Government in Its Own Words. Human Rights Watch, 1994.

Korn, David. Human Rights in Iraq. Human Rights Watch Books, 1990.

Makiya, Kanan. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq. Pantheon Books, 1998.

Marr, Phebe. The Modern History of Iraq. Westview Press, 1985.

Metz, Helen Chapin. Iraq: A Country Study. Government Printing Office, 1990.

Miller, Judith and Laurie Mylroie. Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf. Random House, 1990.

Mufti, Malik. Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq. Cornell University, 1996.

THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR

Chubin, Shahram and Charles Tripp. Iran and Iraq at War. Westview Press, 1988.

Cordesman, Anthony H. Iran and Iraq at War, 1984-1987. Janes Publishing Company, Ltd. 1987.

Dekker, Ige F. and Harry H.G. Post (Editor). The Gulf War of 1980-1988: The Iran-Iraq War in International Legal.

Perspective. Martinus Nijhoff, 1992.

De Guttry, Andrea and Natalino Ronzitti. The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 and the Law of Naval Warfare. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Hiro, Dilip. The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. Routledge, 1991.

Hume, Cameron. The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed. Indiana University Press, 1994.

Karsh, Efraim. The Iran-Iraq War: Impact and Implications. St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Khadduri,Majid. The Gulf War: Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict. Oxford UP, 1988. Krosney, Herbert.

Deadly Business, Legal Deals and Outlaw Weapons. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.

Levinson, Jeffrey L. Missile Inbound: The Attack on the Stark in the Persian Gulf. US Naval Institute, 1997.

Mofid, Kamran and Anoushiravan Ehteshami. The Economic Consequences of the Gulf War. Routledge, 1990.

O'Ballance, Edgar: The Gulf War. Brassey's Defence Publishers, 1988.

Rajaee, Farhang. The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression. University Press of Florida, 1993.

Pelletiere, Stephen. The Iran-Iraq War. Praeger, 1992.

El-Shazly, Nadia El-Sayed. The Gulf Tanker War: Iran and Iraq's Maritime Swordplay. St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Tahir-Kheli, Shirin and Shaheen Ayubi (Editors). The Iran-Iraq War. Praeger, 1983.

Tarock, Adam. The Superpowers' Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1998.

Navias, Martin. Tanker Wars: The Assault on Merchant Shopping During the Iran-Iraq Conflict. I.B. Tauris, 1996.

THE PERSIAN GULF WAR (1991)

Baram, Amatzia. Iraq's Road to War. St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Blair, Arthur H. At War in the Gulf: A Chronology. Texas A&M University Press, 1992.

Bengio, Ofra. Saddam Speaks on the Gulf Crisis. Tel Aviv University, 1992.

Bennis, Phyllis (Editor). Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader. Interlink Publishing Group, 1998.

Bush, George and Brent Scowcroft. A World Transformed. Alfred Knopf, 1998.

Chandler, Robert. Tomorrow's War, Today's Decisions: Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Implications of WMD

Adversaries for Future U.S. Military Strategy. Amcoda Press, 1996.

Clancy, Tom with General Fred Franks. Into the Storm. Berkeley Books, 1997.

Darwish, Adel, and Gregory Alexander. Unholy Bablyon: The Secret History of Saddam's War. St. Martin's, 1991.

Department of Defense. Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: Final Report to Congress. DOD, 1992.

El-Solh, Raghid. Britain's 2 Wars With Iraq: 1941, 1991. Ithaca, 1997.

Freedman, Lawrence and Efram Karsh: The Gulf War 1990-91, Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. Princeton UP, 1993.

Gordon, Michael, and Bernard Trainor. The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf. Little, Brown and Company, 1995.

Hallion, Richard. Storm over Iraq: Air Power and the Gulf War. Smithsonian, 1997.

Henderson, Simon. Instant Empire: Saddam Hussein's Ambition for Iraq. Mercury House, 1991.

Hilsman, Roger. George Bush Vs. Saddam Hussein: Military Success! Political Failure? Acacia Press, 1992.

Hiro, Dilip. Desert Shield to Desert Storm. Routledge, 1992.

Khadduri, Majid. War in the Gulf: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Musallam, Musaliam Ali. The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait: Saddam Hussein, His State and International Power Politics. I.B. Tauris, 1996.

Summers, Col. Harry G. A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War. Dell Publishing. 1992.

U.S. News. Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War. Times Books, 1992.

U.S. News and World Report. Triumph Without Victory. Random House, 1992 and 93.

SINCE THE GULF WAR of 1991

Baram, Amatzia. Building Toward Crisis: Saddam Husayn's Strategy for Survival. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998.

Black, George. Genocide in Iraq. Human Rights Watch, 1993.

Calabrese, John, Ed. The Future of Iraq. The Middle East Institute, 1997.

CARDRI (Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq). Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy. Zed Books, 1995.

Clawson, Patrick. Iraq Strategy Review. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998.

Cockburn, Andrew and Patrick. Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Husayn. Harper Collins, 1999.

Cole, Leonard A. The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare. W.H. Freeman, 1996.

Cordesman, Anthony H. and Ahmed Hashim. Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond. Westview Press, 1997.

Graham-Brown, Sarah. Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq. I.B. Tauris, 1999.

Haselkorn, Avigdor. The Continuing Storm: Iraq, Poisonous Weapons, and Deterrence. Yale University, 1999.

Human Rights Watch. Endless Torment: The 1991 Uprising in Iraq and Its Aftermath. Human Rights Watch, 1992.

Kelly, Robert C., Debra Ewing, Stanton Doyle, Denise Youngblood (Editors). Country Review, Iraq 1998/1999. Commercial Data International, Inc., 1998.

Makiya, Kanan. Cruelty and Silence. Pantheon Books, 1993.

Al-Nasrawi, Abbas. The Economy of Iraq. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.

Simons, Geoff. The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice. St. Martins Press, 1996.

FOREIGN RELATIONS

Francona, Rick. Ally to Adversary: An Eyewitness Account of Iraq's Fall from Grace. US Naval Institute, 1999. Jentleson,

Bruce. With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush, and Saddam 1982-1990. W.W. Norton, 1994. Kienle, Eberhard. Ba'th V.

Ba'th: The Conflict Between Syria and Iraq 1968-1989. I.B. Tauris, 1991.

Shemesh, Haim. Soviet-Iraqi Relations, 1968-1988: In the Shadow of the Iraq-Iran Conflict. Lynne Rienner, 1992.

Smolansky, Oles. The USSR and Iraq: The Soviet Quest for Influence. Duke University, 1991.

Warner, Geoffrey. Iraq and Syria, 1941. Associated University Press, 1979.

IRAQI WEAPONRY AND ARMS ISSUES

Cordesman, Anthony. Iraq and the War of Sanctions: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Praeger, 1999.

Eisenstadt, Michael. Like a Phoenix from the Ashes? The Future of Iraqi Military Power. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1993.

Phythian, Mark, and Nikos Passas. Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam's War Machine. Northeastern University Press, 1996.

Rahman, H. The Making of the Gulf War: The Origins of Kuwait's Long-Standing Territorial Dispute With Iraq. Ithaca, 1998.

Ritter, Scott. Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem -- Once and For All. Simon and Schuster, 1999.

Trevan,Tim. Saddam's Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons. Trafalgar Square, 1999.

IRAQI COMMUNITIES

Al-Bayati, Hamid. The Shi'a of Iraq Between Sectarianism and Suspicions. Al-Rafid, 1997.

Ben Porat, Mordechai. To Baghdad and Back: The Miraculous 2000 Year Homecoming of Iraqi Jews. Gefen, 1998.

Berg, Nancy. Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq. State University of New York Press, 1996.

Ciment, James. The Kurds: State and Minority in Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Facts on File, 1996.

Cole, Juan Ricardo. Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859. California University Press, 1989.

Edmonds, Cecil. Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925. AMS Press, 1988.

Fernea, Elizabeth. Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Anchor-Doubleday, 1965.

Fernea, Robert. Shaykh and Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority Among the El-Shabana of South Iraq. Harvard University Press, 1970.

Fuccaro, Nelida. The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq. I.B. Tauris, 1998.

"Fulanain" (Hedgcock, S. E.). Haji Rikkan: Marsh Arab. Chatto and Windus, 1927.

Fuller, Graham, and Rend Francke. The Arab Shi'a: The Forgotten Muslims. St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Gat, Moshe. The Jewish Exodus from Iraq 1948-1951. Frank Cass & Co., 1997.

Ghanimah, Yusuf Rizqallah. A Nostalgic Trip into the History of the Jews of Iraq. Univ. Press of America, 1999.

Ghareeb, Edmund. The Kurdish Question in Iraq. Syracuse, 1981.

Guest,John. Survival Among the Kurds: A History of the Yezidis. Columbia University Press, 1993.

Guest, John S. The Yezidis: A Study in Survival.

Gunther, Michael. The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Analysis. St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Human Rights Watch. Iraq's Crime of Genocide: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds. Human Rights Watch Books, 1992.

Kamoo, Ray. Ancient and Modern Chaldean History: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Sources. Scarecrow, 1999.

Kazzaz, David. Mother of the Pound: Memoirs on the Life and History of the Iraqi Jews. Scholastic Trade, 1999.

Kreyenbroek, Philip G. Yezidism-Its Background, Observances and Textual Tradition. Edwin Mellin, 1995.

Laizer, Sheri. Martyrs, Traitors and Patriots: Kurdistan After the Gulf War. Zed Books, 1996.

Litwak, Meir. Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala'. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Mallat, Chibli. The Revival of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi'i International. England: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Maxwell, Gavin. A Reed Shaken by the Wind. Eland, 1957.

Meisalis, Susan. Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History. Random House, 1997.

Nakash, Yitzhak. The Shi'is of Iraq. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Randal, Jonathan. After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? Encounters with Kurdistan. Farrar Straus & Giroux Al-Sadr,Muhammad Baqir. Iqtisaduna / Our Economics. World Organization for Islamic Services (Tehran), 1984.

__________. Falsafatuna / Our Philosophy. The Muhammadi Trust (London), 1987.

Sumaida, Hussein and Carole Jerome. Circle of Fear: My Life As an Israeli and Iraqi Spy. Brassey's, 1994.

Thesiger, Wilfred. The Marsh Arabs. The Penguin Group, 1964.

Thornhill, Teresa . Sweet Tea With Cardamom: A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan. Rivers Oram, 1999.

Wiley, Joyce. Islamic Movements of Iraqi Shi'as. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992.

Young, Gavin. Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. Collins, 1977.

MISCELLANEOUS

Almond, Harry. Iraqi Statesman: A Portrait of Mohammad Fadhel Jamali. Grosvenor Books, 1993.

DeYoung, Terri. Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq. State Univ. of New York, 1998.

Dickson, Mora. Baghdad and Beyond. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1961.

Fernea, Elizabeth and Robert. The Arab World: Personal Encounters. Anchor-Doubleday, 1985.

Horwitz, Tony. Baghdad Without a Map and other Misadventures in Arabia. Plume, 1992.

Al-Khayyat, Sana. Honor and Shame: Women in Modern Iraq. Al-Saqi, 1990.

Makiya, Kanan. The Monument: Art, Vulgarity, and Responsibility in Iraq. University of California Press.

McKinnon, Dan. Bullseye One Reactor. House of Hits, 1987.

Roberts, Paul William. The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998.

Ruthven, Malise. Freya Stark in Iraq & Kuwait. Garnet Publishing Ltd., 1997.

Stark, Freya. Baghdad Sketches. Marlboro Press, 1996.

Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell. Doubleday, 1996.

Yahya, Latif. I Was Saddam's Son. Arcade Publishers, 1997.

Young, Gavin. Iraq: Land of the Two Rivers. Collins.