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1 online resource (563 pages) |
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Includes index. |
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List of Photographs -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dedication -- 1. My upbringing -- 2. In public life: the literary forum -- 3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress -- 4. Faisal in Iraq -- 5. Democracy in Iraq -- 6. Oil concessions -- 7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash -- 8. On Iraqi politics -- 9. My first term as Prime Minister -- 10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Sadun -- 11. Nuri al-Said enters the scene -- 12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran -- 13. At the League of Nations -- 14. The ill-fated coups begin -- 15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara -- 16. Events on the brink of war -- 17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue -- 18. Unrest in Iraq -- 19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes -- 20. The Arab League -- 21. My second term as Prime Minister -- 22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948 -- 23. My third term as Prime Minister -- 24. The era of king Faisal II -- 25. The Baghdad Pact -- 26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal -- 27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement -- 28. The Arab Federation -- 29. Iraq and Kuwait -- 30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958 -- 31. The view from exile -- 32. Conclusion. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Suwaydi, Tawfiq, 1892-1968.
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Politicians -- Iraq -- Biography.
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Iraq -- Politics and government.
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Electronic books.
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Roberts, Nancy, translator.
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Print version: Suwaydi, Tawfiq. My memoirs : half a century of the history of Iraq and the Arab cause. Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated, 2013 xviii, 545 pages ; 24 cm 9781588269034 |
| ISBN |
9781588269034 (alk. paper) |
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9781588269034 |
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9781626373969 (electronic bk.) |
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