A Documentary History of Modern Iraq

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many people and organizations contributed to this anthology, and I would like to thank them all. I was lucky enough to have two undergraduate and graduate research assistants, who made the process of collecting and editing these documentsmucheasier .Forthis reason,Iwill beginmy acknowledgmentwiththanks to Emily Louise Dawes and Beau Gaitors. They exhibited laudable patience with all my detailed—and usually last-minute—requests. I would also like to thank the people who read all or part of this manuscript. The introduction, in particular, was a bear to write, and it is better for the input of my colleague Will Gray as well as the very gifted graduate students Sanket Desai and Brandon Ward. I would also like to thank Eric Davis for offering comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. My deepest gratitude goes to the anonymous reviewer no. 3, who took the time to read and to comment on two complete drafts of this anthology. This book benefited from the assistance of Purdue University. A Purdue Alumni Association grant allowed me to hire research assistants. And the Center for Undergraduate Instructional Excellence awarded me a semester leave in order to complete the manuscript. I thank this university for its support of my project. Finally,Iwouldliketothankfriendswholistenedtomethinkthroughaspects of this manuscript over the course of two years. Randy Roberts listened to my worriesandofferedterrificadviceonchoosingthedocumentsforthisanthology. Dawn Marsh provided a well-needed intellectual sounding board, especially in thefinalstagesofthismanuscript’sediting.AndMarkBernsteinlistenedtoallmy concerns throughout writing and editing this book. I hope that this book reflects the valuable advice and support of these wonderful people and organizations. * * * Sati’ al-Husri excerpt translated from the Arabic by Sylvia G. Haim and included in her Arab Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), 147–53. Reprinted by permission of Sylvia Kedourie (née Haim). Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq, by Riverbend (New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. 376 / Acknowledgments From Baghdad Diaries, by Nuha al-Radi. Copyright © 1998, 2003 by Nuha al-Radi. Used by permission of Vintage Books, a division of Random House. “Baghdad My Beloved,” by Salah Al-Hamdani, and translated by C. Dickson. Published in Literature from the “Axis of Evil”: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea , and Other Enemy Nations, edited by Words without Borders. Copyright © 2006 by Words without Borders. Reprinted by permission of Words without Borders (http://www.wordswithoutborders.com). British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print (Series B: Turkey, Iran, and the Middle East, 1918–1939), edited byRobinBidwell(AnnArbor,Mich.:UniversityPublicationsofAmerica,1985), 12: 16–20. Used by permission of ProQuest LLC. Extract from Children of War, by Deborah Ellis. Copyright © 2009 by Deborah Ellis. Reprinted by permission of Groundwood Books Limited (http:// www.groundwoodbooks.com). Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology, by Shakir Mustafa (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2008), 185–90. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. “Dying at the Edge of Death,” by Ghassan Kanafani, and translated by Diana Der-Hovanessian and by Lena Jayyusi (first translator) in Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, 398–99 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987). Copyright © 1987 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. From The First Evidence: A Memoir of Life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Copyright © 2003 by Juman Kubba by permission of McFarland and Co., Box 611, Jefferson, N.C. 28640 (http://www.mcfarlandpub.com). FromTheForeverWar,byDexterFilkins.Copyright©2008byDexterFilkins. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. From Guests of the Sheikh, by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Copyright © 1965 by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. Hell Is Over: Voices of the Kurds after Saddam, by Mike Tucker (Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2004), 108–10. Copyright © 2004 by Lyons Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. FromHousetoHouse:ASoldier’sMemoir, byStaffSergeantDavidBellaviawith John R. Bruning. Copyright © 2007 by David Bellavia. Reprinted by permission of Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American Memoir, by Haider Ala Hamoudi (New York: Beaufort Books, 2008), 125–30. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and author. Acknowledgments / 377 Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during World War II, by the United States Army (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 1, 3–5, 11–14, and 16–17. Reprinted by permission of the...