Table of Contents

Dealing with the Past: Methodological Issues - Introduction to the Section (Peter Sluglett): Advice From The Past: 'Ali Al-Wardi on Literature and Society (Orit Bashkin); Writing the History of Iraq: The Fallacy of 'Objective' History (Johan Franzen); The Sectarian Master Narrative in Iraqi Historiography: New Challenges Since 2003 (Reidar Visser); Beyond Political Ruptures: Towards A Historiography of Social Continuity in Iraq (Peter Harling); The Monarchy Revisited - Introduction to the Section (Jordi Tejel): What Did It Mean to be an Iraqi During The Monarchy? A Preliminary Investigation Based on Oral Interviews in Jordan and the UK (Hala Fattah); From Forty-One to Qadisiyyat Saddam: Remarks on an Iraqi Realm of Memory (Peter Wien); Building the Nation Through the Production of Difference: The Gendering of Education in Iraq, 1928 - 1958 (Sara Pursley); Rethinking the Ba'thist Period - Introduction to the Section (Hamit Bozarslan): Digging The Past: The Historiography of Archeology in Modern Iraq (Magnus T Bernhardsson); Totalitarianism Revisited: Framing the History of Ba'thist Iraq (Achim Rohde); How to 'Turn the Page'? The National Iraqi Leadership After 2003 and the De-Ba'thification Issue (Fanny Lafourcade); Dealing With Victimhood: Whose Memories of Mass Violence? Between Oral and Official History: Fragmented Memory, Competing Narratives: The Perspective of Women Survivors of the Anfal Operations in Kurdistan Iraq (Karin Mlodoch); Searching for Sense: The Concept of Genocide as Part of Knowledge Production in Iraqi-Kurdistan (Andrea Fischer-Tahir); The 1991 Intifada in Three Keys (Dina Rizk Khoury); "Qadissiyat Saddam": The Gamble Didn't Pay Off (Cherine Chams El Dine); Shi'a Actors in Post-Saddam Iraq: Partisan Historiography - Introduction to the Section (Peter Sluglett): Partisan and Global Identity in the Historiography of Iraqi Religious Institutions (Robert Riggs); Najaf and the (Re)Birth of Arab Shi'i Political Thought (Michaelle Browers); Between Action and Symbols: The Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and Its Bid for Political Leadership (Elvire Corboz); The Politics of Population Movements in Contemporary Iraq: A Research Agenda - Introduction to the Section (Geraldine Chatelard): The Brain Drain in Iraq After the 2003 Invasion (Joseph Sassoon); Cosmopolitanism and Iraqi Migration: Artists and Intellectuals From the 'Sixties and Seventies Generations' in Exile (Diane Duclos); Representing Iraq History Through the Arts - Introduction to the Section (Hamit Bozarslan): Literary Glimpses of Modern Iraqi History and Society (Sami Zubaida); History and Fiction in the New Iraqi Cinema (Lucia Sorbera); War, Crimes and Video Tapes: Conflicting Memories in Films on Iraq (Nicolas Masson); Poetry in the Service of Nation-Building? Political Commitment and Self-Assertion in Modern Iraqi Poetry (Leslie Tramontini); Not Only 'For Art's Sake': Exhibiting Iraqi Art in the West After 2003 (Silvia Naef).