||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Must reading!!|By janice j. terry|Al-Suwaydi's memoirs are must reading for anyone interested in the development of the modern Iraqi state. Al-Suwaydi was a key player in the complex political maneuverings in Iraq from independence in the 1920s to the al-Qassem revolution in 1958. He was also an ardent Arab nationalist and supporter of liberal democracy, not only in Iraq but t||A fascinating tour de force on earlier attempts of the British and Iraqis at nation building in Iraq and a useful guide to Iraqi political culture.... This book will be of particular use to scholars and students, who will now have access in English to a valua
These memoirs of the distinguished Iraqi statesman Tawfiq al-Suwaydi (1892-1968) evocatively recapture a now largely vanished Arab world―and are an eloquent reminder that Iraq was once a far more open and tolerant society than it is today. Al-Suwaydi served as Iraq's prime minister three times (1929, 1946, 1950), as foreign minister on numerous occasions, and as ambassador to Iran, the League of Nations, and the United Nations. He frequently undertook sensitive diplo...
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