Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance by Dina Rizk Khoury (Eng

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Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule. Drawing on Ba'thist state and party documents as well as oral interviews with soldiers and intellectuals, this book tells a multilayered story of a society where war had become the norm.

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When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that war was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance and examines the Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture. Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has become the norm.

Author Biography

Dina Rizk Khoury is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. Since 2005, she has been writing on the contemporary history of Iraq, particularly on violence, sectarian politics, and war and memory. She is the author of State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. A brief history of Iraq's wars under the Ba'th; 3. The internal front: making the war routine; 4. Battle fronts: war and insurgency; 5. Things fall apart: the First Gulf War and its aftermath; 6. War's citizens, war's families; 7. Memory for the future: soldiering and the war experience; 8. Commemorating the dead; 9. Postscript.

Review

'Dina Rizk Khoury's book on Iraqis and how they experienced the three Gulf wars: Iran-Iraq, Kuwait, and the end of Saddam, is equally evocative and surprising.' Mary Ann Tetreault, Middle East Media and Book Reviews (membr.uwm.edu/) "Dina Rizk Khoury's book on Iraqis and how they experienced the three Gulf wars: Iran-Iraq, Kuwait, and the end of Saddam, is equally evocative and surprising." Mary Ann Tetreault, Middle East Media and Book Reviews (membr.uwm.edu/)

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'Dina Rizk Khoury's book on Iraqis and how they experienced the three Gulf wars: Iran-Iraq, Kuwait, and the end of Saddam, is equally evocative and surprising.' Mary Ann T

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Traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule.

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Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule. Drawing on Ba'thist state and party documents as well as oral interviews with soldiers and intellectuals, this book tells a multilayered story of a society where war had become the norm.

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Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last 23 years of Ba'thist rule. Drawing on Ba'thist state and party documents as well as oral interviews with soldiers and intellectuals, this book tells a multilayered story of a society where war had become the norm.

Details ISBN0521711533 Author Dina Rizk Khoury Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2013 ISBN-10 0521711533 ISBN-13 9780521711531 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 958.1047 Media Book Language English Short Title IRAQ IN WARTIME Publication Date 2013-04-08 Pages 298 Affiliation George Washington University, Washington DC Audience College/Higher Education UK Release Date 2013-04-08 AU Release Date 2013-04-08 NZ Release Date 2013-04-08 Illustrations 3 Maps; 20 Halftones, unspecified We've got this

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