عنوان

My memoirs :

(Number (ISBN

1626373965

(Number (ISBN

9781626373969

Erroneous ISBN

1588269035

Erroneous ISBN

9781588269034

Title Proper

My memoirs :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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half a century of the history of Iraq and the Arab cause /

First Statement of Responsibility

Tawfiq al-Suwaydi ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts ; with an Introduction by Antony T. Sullivan.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boulder, Colo. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xviii, 545 pages)

Text of Note

Includes index.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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List of Photographs -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dedication -- 1. My upbringing -- 2. In public life: the literary forum -- 3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress -- 4. Faisal in Iraq -- 5. Democracy in Iraq -- 6. Oil concessions -- 7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash -- 8. On Iraqi politics -- 9. My first term as Prime Minister -- 10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Saʻdun -- 11. Nuri al-Saʻid enters the scene -- 12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran -- 13. At the League of Nations -- 14. The ill-fated coups begin -- 15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara -- 16. Events on the brink of war -- 17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue -- 18. Unrest in Iraq -- 19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes -- 20. The Arab League -- 21. My second term as Prime Minister -- 22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948 -- 23. My third term as Prime Minister -- 24. The era of king Faisal II -- 25. The Baghdad Pact -- 26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal -- 27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement -- 28. The Arab Federation -- 29. Iraq and Kuwait -- 30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958 -- 31. The view from exile -- 32. Conclusion.

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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 diplomatic missions on behalf of the Iraqi monarchy. Among the major world figures with whom he interacted personally were Kemal Ataturk, Adnan Menderes, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, John Foster Dulles, Anthony Eden, George Curzon, Benito Mussolini, George Antonius, and Kings Abdullah, Faisal, Hussein, and Ibn Saud. From this vantage point, he wrote with an insider's detail about the diplomatic, political, and geostrategic issues that vexed Iraq and the entire Arab world from the early twentieth century through mid-1960s.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Proquest Ebook Central

Stock Number

4451551

International Standard Book Number

9781588269034

General Material Designation

Mudhakkirātī.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Suwaydī, Tawfīq,1892-1968.

Suwaydī, Tawfīq,1892-1968

Politicians-- Iraq, Biography.

Suwaydai, Tawfaiq.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

HISTORY-- Middle East-- General.

Politicians.

Politics and government

Iraq, Politics and government.

Iraq.

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HIS-- 026000

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Book number

Suwaydī, Tawfīq,1892-1968.

Date of Transaction

20200823044649.0

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