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• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 85 (November 1990)
  Issue 85 (November 1990) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics
• al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī: lisān ḥāl al-Tajammuʻ al-Dīmuqrāṭī al-ʻIrāqī, Issue 90 (June 1991)
  Issue 90 (June 1991) of the Iraqi opposition paper al-Ghad al-dīmuqrāṭī (Democratic Tomorrow) with many articles criticising the Ba'athist Party as well as other topics
• 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-Naft Wal-Aalam — Issue 51, January 1978: The Baghdad World Conference of Trade Unions of Oil-Producing and Consuming Countries
  Issue 51 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, the monthly magazine of Iraq's Ministry of Oil, dated January 1978. The cover documents the Baghdad World Conference of Trade Unions in Oil Producing and Consuming Countries, held under the patronage of President Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr under the slogan of deepening the joint struggle of workers in oil-producing and consuming nations toward a fair economic and social oil order, with a cover photograph of the conference podium and delegates in session, and a caption noting Baghdad hosting leaders of oil workers under the banner of the revolution.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam — Issue 52, February 1978: Requirements for Achieving the 1978 Plan Targets
  Issue 52 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, the monthly magazine of Iraq's Ministry of Oil, dated February 1978. The cover shows a conference session with a row of Arab national flags and a portrait of President Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr behind the presiding panel, with a banner referring to direct implementation of oil projects serving national development planning. The front-page editorial, titled "Requirements for Achieving the Targets of the 1978 Plan," reflects on the first month of 1978 and calls for bold, deliberate steps toward fulfilling the year's annual development plan, framing the effort as a battle against underdevelopment through science, hard work, sacrifice, and mobilisation of national capacities, while warning against negligence, waste, and time-wasting as forms of betrayal against the people and the homeland.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam — Issue 53, March 1978: Opening of the Samawah Refinery
  Issue 53 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, the monthly magazine of Iraq's Ministry of Oil, dated March 1978, with a cover feature on the opening of the Samawah oil refinery. The issue includes a front-page editorial titled "The Most Splendid Fruit of the March Law" marking the anniversary of the 11 March 1974 Law of Autonomy for Kurdistan, describing it as a historic decision resolving the Kurdish question and reviewing the region's economic and social development achievements since the law's passage, alongside articles on comprehensive development in the Autonomous Region and industrial expansion, and a piece titled "The Sixth Development Plan and Iraqi Reconstruction," attributed to Minister of Planning Abd al-Karim.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 11, Year Two (January 1974)
  Issue 11 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, the monthly magazine of the Iraq National Oil Company, Baghdad, dated January 1974. The editorial board is unchanged from Issue 8 (October 1973), with Ali Hadi al-Jabir as Editor-in-Chief, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Dr. Mahdi Hantoush on the management/editorial board, Mohammed Said Aziz overseeing editing, and Abd al-Majid al-Shawi as editorial secretary. The table of contents opens with an article titled "Nationalisation Is the True Path to Using Oil as a Weapon," credited to "al-Ustadh Saddam Hussein" — at the time Vice Chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council — reflecting the political context following Iraq's 1972 nationalisation of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the October 1973 Arab oil embargo. Other contents include a report on Iraqi oil production issues, oil-well firefighting, oil industry technology, growing world reliance on Arab oil, seismic survey teams, industrial liquid fuel (methanol), solar energy, sea-floor minerals, and a general director's interview on oil refinery maintenance.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 46, July 1977: Nine Years of Giving and Great Achievements (Anniversary of the 17 July Revolution)
  Issue 46 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, dated July 1977, by this point published by Iraq's Ministry of Oil with Editor-in-Chief Ta'ih Abd al-Karim, Deputy Editor Mohammed Jabir Hassan, an editorial board including Ali Hadi al-Jabir, and Managing Editor Faisal Ahmed Ibrahim. The cover marks the ninth anniversary of the 17 July 1968 Ba'athist revolution with a portrait of President Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, and the lead editorial, "Nine Years of Giving and Great Achievements," reviews the revolution's record in national liberation, socialist and democratic transformation, and Arab unity, praising the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party's leadership, President al-Bakr, and Vice President Saddam Hussein, and linking the anniversary to the Ba'ath's broader role in Arab revolutionary movements including the Palestinian cause and the 1973 October War.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 47, August 1977
  Issue 47 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, the monthly magazine of Iraq's Ministry of Oil, dated August 1977, with Editor-in-Chief Ta'ih Abd al-Karim, Deputy Editor Mohammed Jabir Hassan, an editorial board comprising Ali Hadi al-Jabir, Essam Abd al-Rahim, Faisal Ahmed Ibrahim, Dr. Awni Shakir, and Sami Ahmed, and Managing Editor Faisal Ahmed Ibrahim. Contents include studies on Iraq's development plan and OAPEC on the anniversary of its founding, technical research on productivity and cost systems, a survey report on the Basra refinery and the Middle Euphrates gas distribution facility, the first seismic team in northern Iraq, investigations into expanding export capacity in the north and computerisation at the Southern Oil Company, national and international reports on OAPEC oil, the joint Iraqi-Somali refinery, solar energy, and petroleum product distribution agreements, and a book review on multinational corporations and imperialist activity.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 54, Year Seven (April 1978)
  Issue 54 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated April 1978. The issue opens with an editorial titled "Mawkib al-Dhikra" (Procession of Memory), commemorating the thirty-first anniversary of the founding of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party on 7 April 1947. Framed as a tribute from the magazine to the party's leadership and to fallen and struggling members across the Arab homeland, the piece celebrates the party's founding principles of unity, freedom, and socialism, and casts the anniversary as a milestone in the party's ongoing confrontation with imperialism, Zionism, backwardness, and Arab fragmentation. The editorial reflects the close integration of Ba'athist state ideology into ostensibly technical ministry publications in late-1970s Iraq, at a moment when the party's internal politics were approaching major upheaval.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 55, Year Seven (May 1978)
  Issue 55 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated May 1978. The issue's lead editorial, "The First of May: Feast of Glory and Victories," traces the history of the Iraqi working class's struggle, framing it within the ideology of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and celebrating the leadership of the 17 July 1968 Revolution. It presents the working class as engaged in a "new battle" of production and development, defending the revolution's achievements against alleged conspiracies by colonial and reactionary powers since a January 1970 coup plot, and expresses solidarity with liberation struggles in Palestine, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia, anticipating the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution. Alongside the editorial, the issue reproduces a section of the political report from the Eighth Regional Congress of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, addressing the party's response to regional threats and internal opposition.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 56, Year Seven (June 1978)
  Issue 56 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated June 1978. The lead feature, "Nationalisation: A Battle and an Experience," marks the sixth anniversary of Iraq's 1 June 1972 nationalisation of the Iraq Petroleum Company's foreign-held oil concessions, framing the decision as both a decisive moment in Iraqi and pan-Arab history and a strategic pillar of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party's programme, encapsulated in the slogan "Arab oil for the Arabs." The article situates the nationalisation within the party's broader vision of Arab economic liberation from foreign monopolies, and extends the analysis to the wider Third World struggle against colonial economic structures. The issue also carries a formal congratulatory message from Oil Minister Tayeh Abdul Karim to President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Vice President Saddam Hussein on the anniversary of the nationalisation decree, accompanied by their portraits, illustrating the personalisation of the nationalisation narrative around the country's top Ba'athist leadership in this period.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 57, Year Seven (July 1978)
  ssue 57 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated July 1978, timed to the tenth anniversary of the 17 July 1968 Revolution that brought the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power. The cover art depicts President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Vice President Saddam Hussein saluting above a composite scene of armed revolutionaries, farmers, and oil workers, visually linking the revolution's anniversary to the achievements of the nationalised oil sector.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 58, Year Seven (August 1978)
  Issue 58 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated August 1978, marking the tenth anniversary of the 17 July 1968 Revolution under the theme "A Procession of Love, Giving, and Defiance." The lead editorial, "The Revolutionary Foundations of Our Oil Policy," summarises a press conference given by Vice President and Revolutionary Command Council member Saddam Hussein, in which he characterised Iraq's post-nationalisation oil policy as a political as well as economic act, asserting the country's independent capacity to negotiate production, processing, and marketing arrangements with more than fifty countries outside the dominance of the international oil cartel, and referencing the 1973–74 oil price increases as validating Iraq's approach to energy policy and development planning. The issue also carries a dedication from Oil Minister and RCC member Tayeh Abdul Karim to President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Vice President Saddam Hussein on the anniversary, framing the nationalised oil sector as a "weapon" serving the goals of unity, freedom, and socialism and affirming solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 59, Year Seven (September 1978)
  Issue 59 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated September 1978. The lead article, "The Interests of the Peoples of OPEC Countries Require Rapid Solutions to the Oil Price Crisis," argues that the declining value of the US dollar and rising inflation were eroding the real income of oil-exporting countries, and calls for coordinated OPEC action to correct crude prices or establish an alternative pricing currency, criticising positions within OPEC that resisted price increases as serving the interests of major consuming nations, particularly the United States. The issue also carries reciprocal Eid al-Fitr greetings exchanged between Oil Minister and Revolutionary Command Council member Tayeh Abdul Karim and President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr together with Vice President and RCC deputy chairman Saddam Hussein, framed around pledges to raise oil-sector production and productivity in service of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party's revolutionary goals.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 61, Year Seven (November 1978)
  Issue 61 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated November 1978, marking the opening of a gas cylinder manufacturing plant in Kuwait. The lead editorial, "The Baghdad Charter: Detonating the Nation's Energies," addresses the Charter for Joint National Action signed in Baghdad on 26 October 1978 by Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, following al-Assad's state visit to Baghdad. The article frames the charter — which established joint political, economic, military, and educational-scientific committees between the two Ba'athist-ruled states — as a historic response to regional threats, explicitly linking it to Arab anger over Egypt's separate peace negotiations with Israel (the Camp David process) and casting the Iraqi-Syrian rapprochement as a rejection of what it calls "capitulationist" and "Zionist-imperialist" schemes. The issue also carries a congratulatory message from Oil Minister Tayeh Abdul Karim to President al-Bakr and Vice President Saddam Hussein on the occasion, pledging increased oil-sector production in support of the charter's goals of unity, freedom, and socialism.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 62, Year Seven (December 1978)
  Issue 62 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq under Editor-in-Chief Tayeh Abdul Karim, dated December 1978. The cover feature, "In Mogadishu: Al-Naft Wal-Aalam Meets Iraqi and Somali Cadres at the Joint Iraqi-Somali Refinery," reports from a jointly operated oil refinery in Somalia, reflecting Iraqi technical and economic cooperation with Somalia in the late 1970s, a period of close Iraqi-Somali relations. An interior article addresses global oil market conditions, touching on the interplay between oil surplus, pricing pressures, and the economic position of producing countries relative to industrialised consumer nations
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Issue 8, Year One (October 1973)
  Issue 8 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, a monthly magazine published by the Iraq National Oil Company in Baghdad, dated October 1973. The editorial board included Editor-in-Chief Mohammed Said Aziz, Editorial Secretary Abd al-Majid al-Shawi, and — notably — the celebrated Palestinian-Iraqi writer and critic Jabra Ibrahim Jabra as a member of the management and editorial board, alongside Ali Hadi al-Jabir and Dr. Mahdi Hantoush. This issue includes articles on oil-company accounting problems, the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals, the US role in creating the oil crisis, offshore drilling agreements tied to an Egyptian construction project, an Arabic translation of French projections on world oil consumption for 1980, and general news, science, and culture sections. Published shortly before the October 1973 Arab oil embargo, the issue captures the Iraqi state oil sector's self-presentation at a pivotal moment in global petroleum politics.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World) — Special Nationalisation Anniversary Issue: Tribute to President Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr
  A special anniversary issue of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, by this point published by Iraq's Ministry of Oil rather than the Iraq National Oil Company directly, marking the anniversary of Iraq's 1972 nationalisation of the Iraq Petroleum Company. The cover carries a tribute to President Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr and headlines the events of the earliest hours of nationalisation as recounted by participants Ghanim Abd al-Jalil and Abd al-Fattah Muhammad Amin, framing June (the month of the 1972 nationalisation decree) as a historic turning point in Iraq's struggle and political transformation.
• Al-Naft Wal-Aalam (Oil and the World)— Issue 49, November 1977: Preparations to Control the Blessing of Oil
  Issue 49 of Al-Naft Wal-Aalam, the monthly magazine of Iraq's Ministry of Oil, dated November 1977, with the same editorial team as the preceding issues (Editor-in-Chief Ta'ih Abd al-Karim, Deputy Editor Mohammed Jabir Hassan, editorial board of Ali Hadi al-Jabir, Essam Abd al-Rahim, Faisal Ahmed Ibrahim, Dr. Awni Shakir, and Sami Ahmed, with Faisal Ahmed Ibrahim as Managing Editor). The issue's editorial centres on the Ba'ath Party's Eleventh Regional Congress, framing it as the culmination of thirty years of the party's struggle and nine years of rule following the 17 July 1968 revolution, and discussing the period between the party's Tenth and Eleventh congresses as a stage of rich organisational and combative experience for the party's leadership in Iraq amid regional and international developments.
• Al-Nashrah (The Bulletin) — Issue 3 Vol 30, October 1982
  Issue 3 Vol 30 of the political bulletin published by the Iraqi Students Society in the UK. The main editorial calls for intensifying the struggle to overthrow the fascist dictatorship and achieve democracy in Iraq. Contents include reports on the martyrs, the 10th conference of the union's overseas branches, student solidarity campaigns, condemnation of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, a resolution by British trade unions, and Iraqi news in the British press. Includes a photo of a protest demonstration by the Iraqi Women's League in the UK, dated 7 October 1982.
• Al-Nashrah (The Bulletin) — Issue 3 Vol 31, October 1983
  A political bulletin published by the Iraqi Students Society in the UK (Branch of the General Union of Students in the Iraqi Republic). Issue 3 commemorates martyr Salam Shahab Ahmad, condemns the Baathist regime's war as a crime against the Iraqi people, reports on a protest demonstration against Taha Al-Jazrawi, and includes Kurdish news, student solidarity news, and reports on Iraq in the financial press.
• 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