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Contents List of Illustrations • ix Editor’s Foreword • xi Editor’s Acknowledgments • xxi Preface • xxiii . Arriving in Baghdad, • . An Educational Adventure • . School of Life • . Significant Occasions • . Yesterday and Today in Baghdad • . Gardens, Houses, and Feasts • . Weddings • . Little Journeys about the City • . Baghdad from the Tigris • . To Basrah on the Tigris • . Visiting the Shiah Holy Cities • . In the Land of the Kurds • . Exploring Scenic Iraq • . The Bedouin Tribes • . The Uprooted Assyrians • viii • Contents . Iraq’s Great Statesman • . And So They Passed • . The Magic Horse and the Magic Carpet • . The Story of Oil • . A Nazi-Inspired Revolt, • . Changing and Changeless Baghdad • Glossary • Works Cited • Index • ...