Institute For Middle East Studies

Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance traces the political, social, and cultural processes of the normalization of war during the last two decades of Ba'thist rule. Beginning with the Iran-Iraq War and continuing through the First Gulf War and sanctions, Dr. Dina Khoury probes the far-reaching ramifications of constant war on the Iraqi people's politics, cultural imagination, and daily lives. She argues that war was a form of everyday bureaucratic governance, and examines the Iraqi government's policies of creating consent, managing resistance and religious diversity, and shaping public culture.