Alda Benjamen

Assyrians in Modern Iraq (eBook, PDF)

Negotiating Political and Cultural Space

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the role of minorities and identity in twentieth-century Iraqi political and cultural history through the relationship between the state and the Assyrians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108985246
• Artikelnr.: 70913743

Autorenporträt

Alda Benjamen is Faculty Fellow in the Department of History at University of California, Berkeley where her work concerns questions about memory, home, and belonging in multilingual and diasporic communities in the context of rural-to-urban and global migrations. She is editor of a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, 'Co-existence and Pluralism in Northern Iraq' (2020), and a roundtable for the International Journal of Middle East Studies, 'Minoritization and Pluralism in the Modern Middle East' (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Identity, Urbanization, and Citizenzhip
1. Assyrians and the Iraqi Communist Party
2. The Role of Assyrians and Communists in the Kurdish uprising (1961-1975)
3. Between Reconciliation and Repression: Bäthist Policies Towards the Assyrians in the 1970s
4. Compliance, Negotiation, Resistance: Assyrian Press and Popular Culture (1970s-1980s)
5. The Re-establishment of the Assyrian Nationalist Political Movement (1970s-1980s)
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Census Data Tables
Appendix 2: The 'Simele' song
Bibliography.