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Index Aani, Sheikh Omar, 350, 352 Abad (Sayid), 156 Abadan (Basra province), oil refineries of, 39 al-Abadi, Ali, 323 abaya (garment), 183–85 Abbas, Abu (Ashura celebrant), 355–56, 357 Abbas, Abu (PLF leader), 308 Abbasite dynasty, 97; Iraq during, 34 Abd al-Ilah (regent), 89, 125 Abdul Aziz-al-Saud (king of Saudi Arabia), 101 Abdul Hamid II, Sultan: deposition of, 18, 29–30, 34; patronage networks of, 30; Young Turks and, 24, 53 Abdul Karim (Sayid), 156 Abdulla, Hussein Ahmad, 180 Abdullah, Emir, 73 Abdullah, Ibtisam: Iran-Iraq War fiction of, 254–58 Abu, Sha’alan, 63 Abu Timman, Ja’far, 56, 60 Achille Lauro (ship), seizure of, 308 Adib, Albert, 139 al-Adib (monthly magazine), 139 Afghanistan, U.S. military in, 332 Aflaq, Michel, 10, 11, 193 Ahali group, reformers in, 107 al-’ahd (sacred society), 26 Ahlam (beautician), 291–93 Ajami, Mohammed, 350 Alamin (Ba’thist police), 223, 224, 225, 227 Albayati, Mahmoud: on Ba’thist Party, 245; Out of Iraq, 244–48 Albu Alwan (village), 348, 350; Khalaf’s symbolism for, 351–52 Album Hessian (village), in Revolt of 1920, 65 alcohol consumption, Muslim: British on, 41, 78 Algiers Agreement (1975), 232, 234, 258 Ali (Sayid), 157 al-Ali, Nadje Sadig, 209; Iraqi Women, 182–87 Allah, Mal, 177 Allawai, Ayad, 357 Allenby, Edmund, 73 Alliance Israelite (school), 1, 114; anti-Semitism concerning, 115; civilizing mission of, 19–21 al Qaeda: and Ashura celebrations, 354; Bush’s invocation of, 332, 333; Hussein and, 308 Amini, Ali, 189 Amiriyah, Coalition bombing of, 266 al Anfal (anti-Kurdish campaign), 12, 230, 258–61; chemical warfare during, 259; Iraqi military during, 259; survivors’ accounts of, 259–61 Anglo-French Declaration (1918), 58 Anglo-Iraqi Joint Defence Board, 136 Anglo-Iraqi Thirty Days War (1941), 8, 125, 127, 323 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1922), 54 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930), 89, 133 anti-Semitism, Iraqi: in Baghdad, 7, 8–9, 90, 113–15, 126–30; causes of, 114–15 anti-Semitism, pan-Arabism and, 114 Arab Congress (proposed), 99–102; agenda for, 101; British attitude toward, 101–2 Arabic language: official status of, 91, 92; suppression of, 36 Arab-Israeli War (1948), 147 Arab Revolt, 78, 114; al-Askari in, 26; al-Husri in, 93; Lawrence of Arabia in, 66; Sunnis in, 81 Arabs: British promises to, 69–71; Syrian, 101 Arabs, Iraqi: British policy on, 72–73; British reprisals against, 67, 68; concept of honor, 61; effect of British mandate on, 66; under Ottoman Constitution, 38. See also Shi’is, Iraqi; Sunnis, Iraqi Arabs, Palestinian, 114; displacement of, 147 382 / Index Arafat, Yasser, 284, 357; and Persian Gulf War, 278 Arif, Abd al-Rahman, 160; Ba’thist overthrow of, 193; patronage networks of, 193 Arif, Abd al-Salam, 163, 171; death of, 160; overthrow of Ba’thists, 11 Arif, Rafiq, 162 artists, Iraqi, 138–39 Ashaar (Ottoman Mesopotamia), European occupation of, 40 Ashura (Shi’i celebration), 90, 115–21; al Qaeda and, 354; at Baghdad, 355–56; Ba’thist targeting of, 223, 225–27, 353–54; bombings during, 15, 356; British accounts of, 116–21; during Coalition occupation, 353–57; flagellation during, 116, 118–20, 355; food celebrating, 354, 355; at Karbala, 225–27, 354, 356; U.S. protection for, 356 al-Askari, Jafar, 18; assassination of, 26, 107; and Bakr Sidqi coup, 111; career of, 25–26; on Ottoman corruption, 25–29; support for Faysal, 78 Assyrian Affair (1933), 89, 102–7; Kurdish looting during, 103, 104; tribal role in, 103, 106 Assyrian Empire, 174 Assyrians, Iraqi: under British mandate, 102; conflict with Kurds, 103, 104; self-determination for, 7, 8, 89–90, 102 al-Attar, Leila, 289–90 Autonomy Law (1974), 216 Azayrij tribe, 82 Aziz, Tariq, 270, 277 al-Aziz, Siddique Abd: on al-Shawwaf Conspiracy , 176–81 Babylon, 174 Baez, Albert V. and Joan: A Year in Baghdad, 140–43 Baez, Joan (daughter), 140, 141 Baghdad: Abu Sifain neighborhood, 128; Al-A’dhamiyya neighborhood, 128; antiSemitism in, 7, 8–9, 90, 113–15, 126–30; attitudes toward women in, 182; during Bakr Sidqi coup, 108–9, 110, 112; during British mandate, 60, 73; class distinctions in, 182–83; Clinton missile attack on, 290; Coalition bombing of, 273–78, 279, 290; College of Arts, 138; el-Karrada al-Sharqiyya neighborhood, 128; Farhud in, 125, 126–30, 144; al-Gaylani mosque, 294–95; governmental corruption in, 169–70; intellectual life in, 137–40; Iranian air attacks on, 245; during Iran-Iraq War, 245, 246, 249, 257; land...