My memoirs : : half a century of the history of Iraq and the Arab cause / / Tawfiq al-Suwaydi ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts ; with an Introduction by Antony T. Sullivan.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder, Colorado : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (563 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Photographs
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Dedication
- 1. My upbringing
- 2. In public life: the literary forum
- 3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress
- 4. Faisal in Iraq
- 5. Democracy in Iraq
- 6. Oil concessions
- 7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash
- 8. On Iraqi politics
- 9. My first term as Prime Minister
- 10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Sadun
- 11. Nuri al-Said enters the scene
- 12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran
- 13. At the League of Nations
- 14. The ill-fated coups begin
- 15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara
- 16. Events on the brink of war
- 17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue
- 18. Unrest in Iraq
- 19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes
- 20. The Arab League
- 21. My second term as Prime Minister
- 22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948
- 23. My third term as Prime Minister
- 24. The era of king Faisal II
- 25. The Baghdad Pact
- 26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal
- 27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement
- 28. The Arab Federation
- 29. Iraq and Kuwait
- 30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958
- 31. The view from exile
- 32. Conclusion.