Iraq in wartime soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance
When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Coming on the tenth anniversary of th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Summary: | When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Dina Rizk Khoury traces the political, social and cultural processes of the normalization of war in Iraq during the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Coming on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this book tells a multilayered story of a society in which war has become the norm. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 281 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521711533 (paperback) 9780521711531 (paperback) |