NEHC 26151: History of Iraq in the 20th Century Professor Orit Bashkin, NELC Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, 3.30-4.30 [email protected] Teaching Assistants: Chelsie May, NELC Lyle Longworth, NELC Class Tasks and Grading: 1) Reading, class participation in discussion sessions (30%) 2) Midterm exam (30%) 3) Final take-home exam [two essay questions; advanced students may write a short paper instead]. The questions will be given at the last day of class. 40% . They are due a week after. Seven pages long]. TextBook [please order online]: Charles A Tripp, History of Iraq (CamBridge and New York, 2007) Please order online Useful Books on the Modern History of Iraq: Pehbe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq (Boulder, 1985) Hana Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq (Princeton, 1978) Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett, Iraq Since 1958: from Revolution to Dictatorship (revised edition) (London, 2001) For Middle East [background]: William L. Cleveland, A history of the modern Middle East (Boulder 1994) Class 1: Wednesday January 3: Historical Background Tripp, The Ottoman period, 8-30 Marion Farouk and Peter Sluglett, “The Historiography of Modern Iraq”, The American Historical Review 5 (1991), 1408-1421 [www.jstor.org] Class 2: Monday, January 8: British Colonization in the 1920s Tripp, The British Mandate, 30-75 Zainab Saleh, "On Iraqi Nationality: Law, Citizenship and Exclusion," The Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1, (Spring 2013), pp. 48-78 [jstor.org] Peter Sluglett, "Imperial Myopia: Some Lessons from Two Invasions of Iraq," Middle East Journal, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Autumn, 2008), pp. 593-609 Amal Vinogradov, “The 1920 Revolt in Iraq Reconsidered: The Role of Tribes in National Politics,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 3/2 (1972), 123-139 [Jstor] Class 3: Wednesday January 10: Elements of Independence and Nationalism in the Interwar Period Tripp, The Hashemite Monarchy, 1932-1941, 75-105 Ernest C, Dawn, “The Formation of Pan-Arab Ideology in the Inter-war Years,” IJMES Vol. 20, No. 1 (1988), 67-91 [jstor] Michael Eppel, “The Elite, the Effendiyya, and the Growth of Nationalism and Pan-Arabism in Hashemite Iraq,” 1921-1958,” IJMES Vol. 30, No. 2 (1998), 227-250 [jstor] Class 4: Monday, January 15: MLK Day Class 5: Wednesday, January 17: Establishing the Monarchic State Tripp, The Hashemite Monarchy, 1941-1958, 105-143 Caecilia Pieri, "Modernity and its Posts in Constructing an Arab Capital: Baghdad's Urban Space and Architecture, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 1/2 (Summer/Winter 2008), pp. 32-39 [jstor] Stefanie K. Wichhart, "Selling Democracy During the Second British Occupation of Iraq, 1941—5," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 48, No. 3 (JULY 2013), pp. 509-536 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, Peter Sluglett, "The Transformation of Land Tenure and Rural Social Structure in Central and Southern Iraq, C. 1870-1958," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb., 2008) [jstor] Marion Farouk-Sluglett, Peter Sluglett, "Labor and National Liberation: The Trade Union Movement in Iraq, 1920-1958," Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 1983), pp. 139- 154 Class 6: Monday, January 22: Gender in the monarchic period Noga Efrati, "The Other 'Awakening' in Iraq: The Women's Movement in the First Half of the Twentieth Century," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Nov., 2004), pp. 153-173 [jstor] Sara Pursley, "The Stage of Adolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq," History of the Present, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2013), pp. 160- 197 [jstor] Peter Wien, "Mothers of Warriors: Girls in Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq, Girlhood, A Global History, (pp. 289-303) [jstor] Class 7: Wednesday, January 24: Sectarian, Ethnic, and Religious Culture Hala Fattah, "Wahhabi Influences, Salafi Responses: Sheikh Mahmud Shukri and the Iraqi Salafi Movement, 1745-1930, Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2 (May 2003), pp. 127- 148 Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett, “Some Reflections on the Sunni/Shi‘i Question in Iraq”, Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) 5/2 (1978), 79-87 [jstor] Sami Zubaida, “The Fragments Imagine the Nation: The Case of Iraq”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 32 (2002), 205-215 [Jstor] Yizhak Nakash, "The Conversion of Iraq's Tribes to Shiism," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug., 1994), pp. 443-463 [jstor] Yizhak Nakash, "The Visitation of the Shrines of the Imams and the Shi'i Mujtahids in the Early Twentieth Century," Studia Islamica, No. 81 (1995), pp. 153-164 Nelida Fuccaro, "Ethnicity, State Formation, and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: The Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 559-580 [jstor] Jordi Tejel Gorgas, "Urban Mobilization in Iraqi Kurdistan during the British Mandate: Sulaimaniya 1918-30," Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Jul., 2008), pp. 537-552 [jstor] Class 8: Monday, January 29: Iraqi Jews Reuven Snir, "My Adherence to the Creed of Moses Has Not Diminished My Love for Muhammad's Nation": The Emergence and Demise of Iraqi Jewish Literary Modern Culture, The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 1 (Winter, 2008), pp. 62-87 [jstor] Reuven Snir, ""My Heart Beats with Love of the Arabs": Iraqi Jews Writing in Arabic in the Twentieth Century" https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Reuven_Snir/publication/233296648_My_Heart_Bea ts_with_Love_of_the_Arabs_Iraqi_Jews_Writing_in_Arabic_in_the_Twentieth_Century/links /5782401808ae5f367d3b5803/My-Heart-Beats-with-Love-of-the-Arabs-Iraqi-Jews-Writing- in-Arabic-in-the-Twentieth-Century.pdf Class 9: Wednesday, January 31: Revolution! Tripp, The Republic, 1958-1968, 143-186 John F. Devlin, “The Baath Party: Rise and Metamorphosis,” The American Historical Review 96/5 (1991), 1396-1407 [jstor] Mona Damluji, "New Lights for Aladdin: Utopian Visions, Architectures of Tradition, and the making of Modern Baghdad, 1950-1970, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, THE UTOPIA OF TRADITION: Twelfth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, December 15-18, 2010, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon: Conference Abstracts (FALL 2010), pp. 74-75 [jstor] Premier Abdul Karim Kassem reviews Military parade in Baghdad, Iraq. HD Stock Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xqvN7S6YR8 Revolt and overthrow of Government in Iraq. General Abdul Karrem arrives in Baghd...HD Stock Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3SSCAKhMRE Class 10: Monday FeBruary 5 Midterm: 25 Multiple Choice questions on Iraqi history Terms for the exam: King Faysal 1; Percy Cox; Gilbert Calyton; 1920 Revolt; Gertrude Bell; Mandate System; Mujtahids; High Commissioner; Mosul Question; King Ghazi; Effendia; Futuwwa [youth movement]; Nuri al-Said; Sati al-Husri; Taqwif Sudwedi; Rashid 'Ali al-Kaylani [Gailani]; 1941 Kaylani Revolt; Farhud; King Faysal II; Regent Abd al-Ilah; Fadhil al-Jamali; Naziha Duleimi; Yusuf Salman Yusuf [Fahd]; Iraqi Communist Party; Wathba (1948); Iraqi Intifada; Michel 'Aflaq; Ba'ath; Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri; Nazik al-Malaika; Sabiha Sheikh Da'ud; 'Abd al- Karim Qasim; Agrarian Reform; 'Abd al-Salam 'Arif; 'Abd al-Rahman 'Arif; 'Abd al-Rahman al- Bazzaz; Madinat al-Thawra; Mosul incident; Sheikh Mahmud Brazanji; Mustafa Barazani Class 11: Wednesday FeBruary 7: The Framework of The Ba'ath Party and the Ba'ath Regime Tripp, The Baath and Saddam, 186-267 Bagdad Iraqi capital city in 1970s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBChdNP7Dw Class 12: Monday, FeBruary 12: RepuBlic of Fear? Saddam Husayn Kanan Makiya, Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (Berkeley, 1998) Chapter 1, on: https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520214392 Marion Farouk Sluglett, "The Making of a Modern Dictator: The Irresistible Rise of Saddam Husayn," Oriente Moderno, Nuova serie, Anno 12 (73), Nr. 1/6 (Gennaio-Giugno 1993), pp. 73-86 [jstor] Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussain's Baath party, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beIcTFFNZb8 Amatzia Baram, “Neo-Tribalism in Iraq: Saddam Hussein's Tribal Policies 1991-96,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 29/1 (1997), 1-31. [jstor] I knew Saddam, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Wuqm22gUU Class 13: Wednesday FeBruary 14: Wars in the Gulf, The Iran Iraq War, The Gulf War Dina Khoury, Iraq at War Time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-koWbeMge-s Peter Sluglett, The Resilience of a Frontier: Ottoman and Iraqi Claims to Kuwait, 1871-1990, The International History Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec., 2002), pp. 783-816 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, Peter Sluglett, Iraq Since 1986: The Strengthening of Saddam, Middle East Report, No. 167, On the Edge of War (Nov. - Dec., 1990), pp. 19-24 The Lost Daughter of Halabja (Our World) - BBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwyqR28Hxg0 Class 14, Monday FeBruary 19: Gender Under the Ba'th Noga Efrati, Productive or Reproductive? The Roles of Iraqi Women during the Iraq-Iran War Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr., 1999), pp. 27-44 [jstor] Sara Pursley, "Daughters of the Right Path: Family Law, Homosocial Publics, and the Ethics of Intimacy in the Works of Shi῾i Revivalist Bint Al-Huda" Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2012), pp. 51-77 [jstor] Class 15: Wednesday FeBruary 21: American Involvement Tripp, American Occupation and the New Republic, 277-317 Nada Shabout, "The Free Art of Occupation: