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KURDISH IDENTITY IN SAMIR NAQQAS'S. Shlomo al-Kurdi, wa-ana wa-az-zaman

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Gharbi M. M.

Rocznik Orientalistyczny

2008

vol. 61

issue 2

58068

The article examines the themes of uprooting and the complexities of identity quest as they appear in Samir Naqqash 1 novel Shlomo Al-Kurdi, Myself and Time. 2 It analyses the extent to which the experiences of exile and displacement influence the formation of the characters' identity and undermine the notion of belonging. The study strives to explore biographical aspects, in which the author's own background and personal traits assume an overbearing impact on the themes found in his novel. The author argues that both the writer and his protagonist live in exile and seek identity, first the author through the act of writing in Arabic language, whereas his protagonist does so by retaining his Kurdish surname. The relationship between exile and memory is approached, in which the author and his protagonist endeavor to preserve their memory in the face of the tension posed by the experience of separation from their native lands. Similarly, they had undertaken narratives of harsh journeys on account of political and economic compulsions to some new strange lands, where they long for an image of home they have left behind.

IRAQ: THE RULE OF ABDARRAHMĀN ĀRIF AND ITS END (1966 – 1968)

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Sorby K. R.

Asian and African Studies

2015

vol. 24

issue 1

1 – 17

The July Revolution of 1958 in Iraq brought Staff Brigadier Abdalkarīm Qāsim to power, in alliance with a loose group of Communists, Kurds, bathists, patriotic democrats and Arab nationalists from the outset. Over the following five years he lost the support of each of these groupings. His overthrow in February 1963 was carried out by a combination of bacthist and Arab nationalist military officers. Although the presidency was placed in the hands of Abdassalām Ārif, a non-bathist army general, the Bath party played the predominant role in the government which succeeded the rebellion. A campaign of severe repression against the Communist party was initiated. In November 1963, following attempts by the Bath party to entrench its hold on power, Abdassalām Ārif ousted the principal bathist leaders from the government and dismissed senior bathist military officers from their posts. To the extent that organised civilian involvement in government continued, it was a loosely organised grouping of Arab nationalists and nāṣirists who provided the regime’s civilian base. In April 1966 Abdassalām Ārif was killed in a helicopter crash and was succeeded by his elder brother Abdarrahmān Ārif, a man of weaker personality. His rule was of short duration: in July 1968 the Bath party returned to power again after a coup.

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KURDISH IDENTITY IN SAMIR NAQQAS'S. Shlomo al-Kurdi, wa-ana wa-az-zaman

IRAQ: THE RULE OF ABDARRAHMĀN ĀRIF AND ITS END (1966 – 1968)