Description
Book SynopsisArgues that destruction of Iraqi culture was aimed at remaking Iraq into a US client state
Trade Review'If you are looking for a textbook that provides a view of Middle East politics free of colonial bias, [this] book plainly fulfil this fundamental requirement' -- Gilbert Achcar, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London
Table of ContentsDedication
Preface
Part I: Formulating and Executing the Policy of Cultural Cleansing
1. Introduction by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael and Tareq Y. Ismael
2. Cultural Cleansing in Comparative Perspective by Glenn E. Perry
Part II: Policy in Motion: Destroying the Past, Killing the Future
Part A: The Assault on Iraq's Incomparable History
3.Archaeology and the Strategies of War by Zainab Bahrani
4. The Status of Iraq's Archaeological Heritage: Report on the Destruction of Archaeological Sites, Museums and Historical Monuments in Occupied Iraq by Abbas Husainy
5. Negligient Mnemocide and the Shattering of Iraqi Collective Memory by Nabil Al Tikriti (University of Mary Washington, USA)
Part B: The Present and the Future
6. Killing the Intellectual Class by Dahr Jamil and Max Fuller
Dirk Adriaensens
7. The Purging of Minds by Philip Marfleet
8. Minorities in Iraq: The Other Victims by Mokhtar Lamani
Part III: Appendices
Appendix I. Reflections on Death Anxiety and University Professors in Iraq by Faris K. O. Nadhmi
Appendix II. List of Murdered Academics
About the Contributors
Index
