Davis 423
in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory and Popular Culture, edited by
Eric Davis and Nicolas Gavrielides (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
1991), 202–227.
- uland al-Haidiri (al-Haydari), “Jawad Salim and Faiq Hassan and the B
Birth of Modern Art in Iraq,” UR 4 (1985): 19.
- course, there were many subtexts to the struggle between Iraqist and Of
Pan-Arab nationalists in Iraq. For a discussion of the formative compo-
nents of these two ideological tendencies, see my Memories of State, 13–15.
- ic Davis, “History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Er
Iraq,” Orbis 49, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 232.
- For details on these attacks, see “Horror at Gruesome Murder of Two Iraqi
Journalists,” Reporters Without Borders, 16 May 2005; Sophie Hebden
and Wagdy Sawahel, “Iraqi Intellectuals Targeted by Assassins,” Mail &
Guardian (South Africa), 4 July 2006; Abduhussein Ghazal, “Slated for
Killing: More than 450 Iraqi Intellectuals Fear for Their Lives,” Azzaman,
8 May 2006.
- or results of the poll, see Global Policy Forum, http://www.globalpolicy. F
org/security/issues/iraq/resist/2007/0319iraqpoll.pdf.
- ntonio Gramsci, A Selections From the Prison Notebooks (London: Lawrence
& Wishart, 1971), 229–235, 238–239.
- efforts of sectarian forces to suppress coffeehouse culture, see “Book On
Market Fire Piles on the Misery for Broken Baghdad,” The Independent,
1 November 2003; Phillip Robertson, “The Death of al-Mutannabi Street,”
Salon.com, 26 August 2005. For the history of the Shabandar coffeehouse,
see Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad, “Maqha al-Shabandar fi Baghdad”
[The Shabandar Coffeehouse of Baghdad], Majallat al-Turath al-Sha‘bi
[The Journal of Popular Culture] 38, no. 2 (2007): 142–145; and “Baghdad
Car Bomb Kills 20 on Bookseller’s Row,” New York Times, 6 March 2007.
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http://altonchi.blogspot.com/; Jassim al-Rassif at http://arraseef.blogspot.
com/; alressd at http://alressd.maktoobblog.com/; http://riverbendblog.
blogspot.com/, written by Riverbend, a young Baghdadi woman who wrote
Baghdad Burning; last-of-iraqis.blogspot.com, written by Muhammad, a
25-year-old Iraqi dentist in Baghdad; livesstrong.blogspot.com, written by
a 15-year-old Mosul girl; astarfrommosul.blogspot.com, written by “Aunt
Najma,” a 19-year-old engineering student from Mosul; http://iraqthemodel.
