Digital Archive of the Middle East

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• 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-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.
• An article on the Kurdish National Liberation Movement, based on a book by Aziz Shemzini
  A five-page article on the Kurdish National Liberation Movement, based on Aziz Shemzini’s book 'Jolaneweyi Rizgari Nishtimani Kurdistan' [The Patriotic Freedom Movements from Kurdistan]. Aziz Shemzini was a prominent member of the KDP in the 1940s - the grandson of Abdel Kader Shemzini, he received a doctorate in Leningrad in 1958. His book was published in Kurdish, Arabic and Russian.
• Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, 1969.
  46-page issue of the Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, (1969) edited by Dara Attar and containing articles by Lord Kilbracken, Taufiq Wahby and C.J. Edmonds.
• Babylon booklet
  20 page booklet on the ancient site at Babylon, in English, Arabic, German, Russian and French, published in 1982 by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information's State Organization of Antiquities and Heritage. In addition to a descriptive history of the site, there are plans, photographs, artistic reconstructions of the buildings and illustrations of Babylonian costume.
• Baghdad City Map, circa 1960s
  Baghdad City Map, Issued by the Summer Resorts and Tourism Service, Baghdad. Circa Mid C20th
• Baghdad No. 9 (July 1974)
  Issue No.9 of 'Baghdad' magazine, published in July 1974 by the Iraqi Ministry of Information and containing articles on The Kurdish Academy in Baghdad, Abu Mnaycir summer camp, medieval Baghdad, Arabic calligraphy, traditional Iraqi music and other topics.
• Basra, early 1980s
  B&W photograph of a street in Basra during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), with sandbags visible as a protection against air attack
• British documents on Mustafa Barzani (1903-79)
  Selection of documents on Mustafa Barzani, including three pages of handwritten biographical notes on diplomatic notepaper and a typed transcript of an interview with Barzani by Richard Beeston (1926-2015)
• Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (August 1964)
  Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (August 1964)
• Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (January-February 1966)
• Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (July 1964)
  Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (July 1964) containing articles on Palestine, the Arab Socialist Union and the oil industry
• Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (May-June 1965)
  Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (May-June 1965)
• Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (September 1964)
  Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (September 1964), containing articles on Arab nationalism, Israel and anti-colonialism (Part Two), the Kurds, Iraqi industry and Egyptian theatre
• Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (September-October 1965)
  Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (September-October 1965) with articles on British-Iraqi relations, Aden, the third Arab League Summit, development in the city of Baghdad, Arab art and literature, etc.
• Documents of Indictment (1994): A collection of documents condemning the mercenary and terrorist wing of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement and ordering it to attack the federal government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
  A compilation of documents published by the PUK to highlight terrorist activities undertaken by the Kurdistan Islamic Movement in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
• Documents of the 27th Conference - Iraqi Students Association in the United Kingdom - General Students Union Branch in the Republic of Iraq November 20, 1982
• Facsimile letter from the martyr Khalil Saoud to Jalal Talabani, 1978
  Large two-page document issued by the Iraqi Communist Party on the killing of Khalil Saoud, including a facsimile handwritten letter from Saoud to Jalal Talabani
• General Census of Iraq (1965)
  General census for Iraq (1965) published by the Ministry for the Interior
• Gulf States Information Documentation Center, 1981-1985
  A report on the activities of the Gulf States Information Documentation Center in Baghdad between 1981 and 1985.
• Illustrated Map of Iraq (1), 1:1,000000.
  Illustrated Map of Iraq, 1:1,000000, For Development Projects, Development Board, Ministry of Development. Survey Press, Baghdad.
• Iraq Agriculture Ministry Study on the Cooperative Movement in Iraq (1973)
  Thirty-page study on the cooperative movement in Iraq, published by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1973 with tables