422 Resisting Publics
resided there for lengthy periods of time as “al-mutamisriyyun” (“would-
be Egyptians”). Unlike in Iraq, non-Coptic Christians and Jews were often
drawn from foreign communities resident in Egypt. On these groups, see
my Challenging Colonialism, 93.- Kamal Mazhar Ahmad, al-Tabaqa al-‘Amila al-‘Iraqiyya: al-Takawwun wa-
Bidayat al-Taharruk [The Iraqi Working Class: Its Formation and Early
Activities] (Baghdad: Dar al-Rashid li-l-Nashr, 1981), 127–154. - or more information on the Iraqi working class, see my “‘Utopia From F
Below’: The Inclusionary Discourse of the Iraqi Working Class,” Rutgers
Center for Historical Analysis, 22 March 2000; and my “History for the
Many or History for the Few? The Historiography of the Iraqi Working
Class,” in Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles,
Histories, Historiographies, edited by Zachary Lockman (Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1994), 271–301. - or the best study on the June 1954 elections, see Ja‘far ‘Abbas Humaydi, F al-
Tatawwurat wa-l-Ittijahat al-Siyasiyya al-Dakhiliyya fi al-‘Iraq, 1953–1958
[Developments and Internal Political Tendencies in Iraq, 1953–1958],
82–103. - or a list of the political parties formed prior to and following the 1920 F
Revolt, see ‘Alaywi, al-Ahzab al-Siyasiyya fi al-‘Iraq al-Sirriyya wa-l-
‘Alaniyya, 53–82. - Davis, Memories of State, 48, 50–51, 82, 92–93, 97–99.
- See, for example, Salim Taha al-Takriti, “al-Jawahiri Sahafiyan” [al-Jawahiri
as Journalist], in Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri: Critical Studies, edited by
Hadi al-‘Alaywi (Baghdad: Maktabat al-Andalus, 1969), 195–214; Davis,
Memories of State, 49. - Baghdadi, li-alla Nansa: Baghdad fi al-‘Ishriniyyat, 119.
- am indebted to Dr. Riyad ‘Aziz Hadi, vice-president for academic affairs I
and former dean of the faculty of law and political science, Baghdad
University, for much information on the history of the coffeehouse in Iraq.
Written communication, “al-Maqahi,” 26 September 2007. - Davis, Memories of State, 95.
- aghdadi, B li-alla Nansa: Baghdad fi al-‘Ishriniyyat, 124; Davis, Memories of
State, 94–95. - or a discussion of the Iraqi short story see Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, “The F
Sociopolitical Context of the Iraqi Short Story, 1908–1968,” in Statecraft