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During her many years in Iraq, Freya Stark was witness to the rise and fall of the British involvement in the country as well as the early years of independence.
Freya Stark first journeyed to Iraq in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy and worlds apart from the country it has since become. Typically - and controversially - she chose to live outside the close-knit western expatriate scene and immersed herself in the way of life of ordinary Iraqis - living in the 'native' quarter of the city and spending time with its tribal sheikhs and leaders.
Venturing out of Baghdad, she travelled to Mosul, Nineveh, Tikrit and Najaf, where she perceptively describes the millennia-old tensions between Sunni and Shi'a, time not having dissipated their hatred. In the 1940s she returned again, this time travelling south, to the Marsh Arabs, whose way of life has now all but disappeared; north into Kurdistan and later, Kuwait, in the days before the oil boom.
Painting a portrait of both the political and social preoccupations of the day as exquisitely as she does the people and landscapes of Iraq, Baghdad Sketches is a remarkable portrait of the country as it once was.
Contents
List of Illustration
Preface
The Desert Route
An Introduction from Damascus
In the Moslem Quarter
Marie the Armenian
Life in the Slum
The Making of a Nationalist
Concerning Smells
A Chapter of Discord
The Life of the River
A Visit in the Desert
European and American Ladies in Iraq
The Social Status of Ladies
Concerning Manners
A Syriac Christmas
Education
Ramadhan
The Fellahin
The Nisibin Road
The Young Effendi and the Sentimental Traveller
The Devil-Worshippers
The Death of Mandali
The Kuwait Journey
Kuwait. II 1937
Failichah
The "Slaves" Club
Cosmetics
Builton Sand
The 'Ashura
One of the Four Holy Cities of Iraq
Samarra and Tekrit
Nejf
Index
