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1. The street is dead in Baghdad.

Author

Makiya, Kanan

Subjects
*MONUMENTS, *PUBLIC spaces
Abstract

Discusses the social significance of patriotic monuments built in Baghdad, Iraq in relation to public spaces. Monuments erected by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; Privatization of space for monument construction; Loss of the public realm; Kitsch in Iraqi architecture; Usurpation of the street by the efficiency of a tyrant. INSET: Forgetting Beirut, by Kanan Makiya..

Published
1996

2. 'Wrought By Neglect, Not War'.

Author

Makiya, Kanan

Subjects
EMIGRATION & immigration, MILITARY government
Abstract

The author reflects on the reason why he left Baghdad, Iraq and did not return again for 35 years. He mentions that he lived in a glass house in which former President Saddam Hussein did not exist. He describes his experience of returning to Baghdad the week after the fall of Hussein's regime. He relates that he tried to stay in Baghdad for four years, marry the childhood sweetheart he had left behind in 1968 and return to Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife to live there.

Published
2011

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