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By Dina Rizk Khoury

whilst US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a rustic that have been at conflict for 23 years. but of their makes an attempt to appreciate Iraqi society and historical past, few coverage makers, analysts and reporters took under consideration the profound effect that Iraq's lengthy engagement with warfare had at the Iraqis' daily engagement with politics, the company of dealing with their day-by-day lives, and their cultural mind's eye. Drawing on govt files and interviews, Dina Rizk Khoury lines the political, social and cultural approaches of the normalization of warfare in Iraq over the last twenty-three years of Ba'thist rule. Khoury argues that warfare was once a sort of daily bureaucratic governance and examines the Iraqi government's guidelines of making consent, handling resistance and non secular variety, and shaping public tradition. approaching the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this ebook tells a multilayered tale of a society within which conflict has develop into the norm.

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