Digital Archive of the Middle East

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• A Guide to the Sites of Antiquities and Civilization: Baghdad to Kirkuk to Sulaimani (1965)
  Illustrated guidebook with maps and photographs, entitled 'A Guide to the Sites of Antiquities and Civilization. The Fourth Journey. Kirkuk to Sulaimani (1965) with photographs of sites including the rock tombs of Qizqaban
• A Guide to the Sites of Antiquities and Civilization: Baghdad to Mosul (1966)
  Illustrated guidebook with maps and photographs, entitled 'A Guide to the Sites of Antiquities and Civilization. The Third Journey. Baghdad to Mosul' (1966) with photographs of sites including Ashur, Khinnis, the Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul and Zakho Bridge
• A handwritten article by the Committee for the Defence of the Kurdish People's Movement in Iraq
  The Committee for the Defence of the Kurdish People's Movement penned a four-page handwritten article in 1976. In this article, the authors criticise both the Iraqi and Iranian governments for their efforts to suppress the Kurdish population with the assistance of local Kurdish parties. Committee members include the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Association of Kurdistan Students Abroad (AKSA), and the Confederation of Iranian Students National Union (CIS).
• Agrarian Reform Law and the End of Feudalism (1958)
  Pamphlet on 'Agrarian Reform Law and the End of Feudalism' (1958) comprising speeches by new President Abdul-Karim Qasim and his former pupil, Hadib Al-Hajj Hamoud, Minister for Agriculture, along with a treatise on the topic.
• Agricultural Policy and Land Reform Cooperatives in Iraq (PhD thesis, 2007) by Nidhal K. Rashid
  PhD thesis from 2007 by Nidhal K. Rashid, a former M.A. post-graduate of Exeter (1972), based on primary sources and provides an analysis of the historical experiences of agricultural policy and land reform, not only in Iraq but also in comparison with Egypt, Iran, and Russia, in addition to an examination of the role of cooperatives in achieving rural development between 1950 and 1980. The University of Leicester (U.K.) published two chapters of the study in their magazine The International Journal of Cooperative Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, August 2005 and Vol. 3, No. 2, Nov. 2007.
• Al-Asas. Voice of Revolutionary Communists in Iraq (December 1979)
  December 1979 issue of 'Al-Asas' newspaper, 'The Voice of Revolutionary Communists in Iraq', published in Beirut.
• Al-Da'wah Chronicle. The Voice of the Iraqi Mujahideen No.44 (December 1983)
  Issue No.44 (December 1983) of 'Al-Da'wah Chronicle. The Voice of the Iraqi Mujahideen', published in London by the Information Committee of the Islamic Da'wa Party (Europe). Topics discussed include the recent bombings of American and other embassies in Kuwait, Ba'athist crimes in Iraq, Islamic political struggle, and 'the Martyrdom of the Five Scholars' in Baghdad in December 1974.
• Al-Da'wah Chronicle. The Voice of the Iraqi Mujahideen. Issue No.22 (February 1982)
  Issue No.22 (February 1982) of 'Al-Da'wah Chronicle. The Voice of the Iraqi Mujahideen', published in London by the Information Committee of the Islamic Da'wa Party (Europe). Topics discussed include the ongoing massacres of Muslim Brothers in Hama, Syria, Ba'athist crimes in Iraq, the anniversaries of the uprisings in Iraq (February 1977) and Iran (February 1979), Islamic political struggle and relations between different Islamic organisations.
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 131 (September 1998)
  Issue 131 (September 1998) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics, including an obituary on the back page for Hadi al-'Alawi, the newspaper's sometime editor and regular contributor
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 65 (March 1989)
  Issue 65 (March 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics, such as Kurdish refugees in a camp near Mardin, the creation of the Arab Co-operation Council, events in Sudan and a documentary film about the Halabja attack
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 66 (April 1989)
  Issue 66 (April 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics such as the attack on the Kurdish town of Qaladiza, a tribute to the late Maqam singer Muhammad al-Qubanchi and details of Michael Aoun's activities in Beirut
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 67 (May 1989)
  Issue 67 (May 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics such as the arrest of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, an arms deal with Michael Aoun, the plight of Iraqi refugees facing deportation from Pakistan and the integrity of the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 68 (June 1989)
  Issue Issue 68 (June 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics such as events in Sudan, the Casablanca Summit, population displacement within Iraq and developments within the wider Iraqi opposition movement
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 69 (July 1989)
  Issue 69 (July 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics such as the forced displacement of Kurds from their villages in Iraq and the recent military coup in Sudan
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 71 (September 1989)
  Issue 71 (September 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics such as reports of the massive deadly explosion at the Al Qa'qaa' weapons facility, illegal Italian loans to Iraq, and secret communications between the Ba'athists and Israel
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 72 (October 1989)
  Issue 72 (October 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics such as Iraq's aims in Lebanon, the persecution of Kurdish refugees in Türkiye, and a comparison between Saddam Hussein and Ferdinand Marcos
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 73 (November 1989)
  Issue 73 (November 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as poetry and other topics such as a visit of Soviet intellectuals to Israel, Bush's foreign policy, Hadi Alwai on the persecution of the Kurds, and the treatment of Iraqi refugees in Pakistan
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 74 (December 1989)
  Issue 74 (December 1989) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics such as the Bush-Gorbachev summit, the state of human rights and democracy in Iraq and the silence of the west on abuses, and Iraq's involvement in Lebanon.
• Al-ʻĀmilūn fī al-naft Nos.12-22 (January - December 1963)
  Issues 12-22 (January - December 1963) of Al-ʻĀmilūn fī al-naft [Oil Workers], the in-house magazine of the Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd., the Basrah Petroleum Company Ltd. and the Mosul Petroleum Company Ltd., containing articles of general interest as well as features on internal company news.
• Al-ʻĀmilūn fī al-naft Nos.35-46 (January - December 1965)
  Issues 35-46 (January - December 1965) of Al-ʻĀmilūn fī al-naft [Oil Workers], the in-house magazine of the Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd., the Basrah Petroleum Company Ltd. and the Mosul Petroleum Company Ltd., containing articles of general interest as well as internal company affairs.
• Al-Nasiriyah No.24 (4 December 1982)
  Issue of the independent, London-based weekly newspaper 'Annaseria/Al-Nasiriyah' for 4 December 1982
• Al-Nasiriyah No.47 (4 June 1983)
  Issue of the independent, London-based weekly newspaper 'Annaseria/Al-Nasiriyah' for 4 June 1983
• Al-Nasiriyah No.69 (3 December 1983)
  Issue of the independent, London-based weekly newspaper 'Annaseria/Al-Nasiriyah' for 3 December 1983
• Al-Tahrir Issue 10 (May 1985)
  Issue No. 10 (May 1985) of Al-Tahrir, the newspaper of the Iraqi People's Liberation Army, an organization founded in the mid-1960s that opposed the ruling Ba'athist party rule. This issue contains a report on the group's participation with the Iraqi National Democratic Front in the Conference of Arab Revolutionary Forces held in Libya, news from the war with Iran, and other topics.
• Al-Tahrir Issue 11 (November 1985)
  Issue No. 11 (November 1985) of Al-Tahrir, the newspaper of the Iraqi People's Liberation Army, an organization founded in the mid-1960s that opposed the ruling Ba'athist party rule. This issue contains news from the war with Iran, criticisms of Saddam's role in the war with a cartoon of him eating himself, reports on revolutionary activities in Nicaragua. and other topics.