Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel after 2003 Literature and the Recovery of National Identity by RonenZeidel Hardcover, 222 Pages, Published 2020 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9462-2, ISBN: 1-4985-9462-X
"A fresh look at Iraqi history through the twentieth century until today, this book identifies continuities and breaks in the Iraqi experience. It combines chapters that provide each an expansive bird’s-eye view of a key issue spanning a century with chapters that focus on more specific case studies that have been largely overlooked so far but such that are of great significance for Iraq’s present and future. Some of the events and devel ..."
"... Muhadarat 'an al-'Iraq min al-ihtilal hatta al-istiqlal, Cairo: Ma'had al-Buhuth
wal-Dirasat al-'Arabiyya, 1954; 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Hasani, al-'Iraq fi Zill al-Mu'
ahadat, Sayda: Matba'at al-'Ifran, 1947; `Abd al-Razzaq al-Hasani, Ta'rikh al-'Iraq
alSiyasai al-Hadith, Sayda: Matba'at al-'Ifran, 1957; on his important intellectual
activity in the 1940s and 1950s, see: Nissim Rejwan, The Last Jew in Baghdad:
Remembering a Lost Home ..."
"Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel is about the use of literature and the novel to express the new content of an Iraqi national identity constructed after the American invasion of 2003."
"The Middle East state system, which was largely an artificial construct of the post World War I international order, has faced enormous challenges since Arab uprisings erupted in December 2010. The collection of essays in this volume, based on a seminar held by The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies in the 2012 13 academic year, examines the state of the Middle East in the aftermath of the uprisings and seeks to e ..."