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  1. uland al-Haidiri (al-Haydari), “Jawad Salim and Faiq Hassan and the B
    Birth of Modern Art in Iraq,” UR 4 (1985): 19.

  2. 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.

  3. ic Davis, “History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Er
    Iraq,” Orbis 49, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 232.

  4. 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.

  5. or results of the poll, see Global Policy Forum, http://www.globalpolicy. F
    org/security/issues/iraq/resist/2007/0319iraqpoll.pdf.

  6. ntonio Gramsci, A Selections From the Prison Notebooks (London: Lawrence
    & Wishart, 1971), 229–235, 238–239.

  7. 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.

  8. or some of the more important Iraqi blogs, see Dr. Toufic al-Tounji at F
    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.

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