Cultural Cleansing in Iraq

Raymond William Baker is Professor of International Politics, Trinity College, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. His books include Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (Pluto, 2009) and Islam Without Fear (Harvard University Press, 2006).Shereen T. Ismael is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and MSW Field Coordinator in the School of Social Work, Carleton University. In addition to her book Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State (UAP, 2006), she is the co-editor of Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (Pluto, 2009).Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada and President of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University. His most recent works include Middle Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (Pluto, 2009), The Iraqi Predicament (Pluto, 2004) and Iraq (Pluto, 2003).

'If you are looking for a textbook that provides a view of Middle East politics free of colonial bias, [this] book plainly fulfil this fundamental requirement'

• DedicationPrefacePart I: Formulating and Executing the Policy of Cultural Cleansing1. Introduction by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael and Tareq Y. Ismael2. Cultural Cleansing in Comparative Perspective by Glenn E. PerryPart II: Policy in Motion: Destroying the Past, Killing the FuturePart A: The Assault on Iraq's Incomparable History3.Archaeology and the Strategies of War by Zainab Bahrani4. The Status of Iraq's Archaeological Heritage: Report on the Destruction of Archaeological Sites, Museums and Historical Monuments in Occupied Iraq by Abbas Husainy5. Negligient Mnemocide and the Shattering of Iraqi Collective Memory by Nabil Al Tikriti (University of Mary Washington, USA)Part B: The Present and the Future6. Killing the Intellectual Class by Dahr Jamil and Max FullerDirk Adriaensens7. The Purging of Minds by Philip Marfleet8. Minorities in Iraq: The Other Victims by Mokhtar LamaniPart III: AppendicesAppendix I. Reflections on Death Anxiety and University Professors in Iraq by Faris K. O. NadhmiAppendix II. List of Murdered AcademicsAbout the ContributorsIndex