Thursday, November 22, 2012 @ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Faisal I, Gertrude Bell and Sat’i al-Husri: The Politics of Archaeology in Iraq
Dr Ali A. Allawi on the evolution of Iraq’s identity as a modern state and the role of archaeology in this process
By Ali Khadr
Dr Ali A. Allawi on Faisal I, Gertrude Bell and Sat’i al-Husri: The Politics of Archaeology in Iraq
Dr Ali A. Allawi presented this lecture on the evolution of Iraq’s identity as a modern state and the role of archaeology in this process during the Faisalian era (1921-1933). Dr Allawi’s comprehensive political biography of Faisal I was published in spring 2013. The biography is set against the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the modern state system in the Middle East and Iraq.
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