Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood and Sovereignty in Iraq Lifestyle Published December 2011"

Published December 2011"

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In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic

Published January 1

Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood and Sovereignty in Iraq Lifestyle Published December 2011"Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognised as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth century wave of decolonisation movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernisation theorists and postwar international agencies. Familiar Futures considers how such projectsfrom the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920