Iraq history links

British flying boat near Basra, 1930s

Archives and libraries

• National Archives, London
  
• Prime Minister's Archives, Ottoman section, Istanbul
  
• National Archives, New Delhi (the repository of files evacuated from the British embassy in Baghdad in 1941, including materials from the period of the British mandate)
  
• Archives of the League of Nations, Geneva
  

Online sources

• Al-Quds al-'Arabi newspaper archives
  (convenient pdf archive with coverage back to 1998)
  
• www.ansab-online.com (great for Arab genealogy)
  
• Al-dhari‘a ila tasanif al-shi‘a
  
(Agha Buzurg al-Tihrani's massive bio-bibliographical work on Shi'i ulama)

• Al-Zaman newspaper archives (starts in 2000)
  

Research tools

• Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 edition
  
• Conversion of dates, Gregorian and hijri
  
• Persian calendar conversion
  
• Geonet Names Server (useful for obscure place names)
  

Links of related interest (a selection of sites and blogs where articles from historiae.org are listed or discussed)

• Alive in Baghdad by Brian Conley (Massachusetts, USA)
• American Footprints
• Antwoorden by Mohammed El-Khalfioui (Antwerpen, Belgium)
• Avrasya Stratejik Arastirmalar Merkezi (Ankara, Turkey)
• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Bonn, Germany)
• Columbia International Affairs Online (New York, USA)
• Conflicts Forum
• Daily Briefing (Queensland, Australia)
• The Dreyfuss Report by Robert Dreyfuss (Virginia, USA)
• Education for Peace in Iraq Center (Washington, DC, USA)
• Gas and Oil Connections by Alexander Wöstmann (Limbach, Germany)
• Global Policy Forum (New York, USA)
• Gulf in the Media by Gulf Research Center (Dubai, UAE)
• Human Security Gateway (British Columbia, Canada)
• Informed Comment by Juan Cole (Michigan, USA)
• Instituto da Cultura Árabe (São Paulo, Brazil)
• Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Internationale spectator by Instituut Clingendael (The Hague, Netherlands)
• Iraqanalysis.org (UK)
• Iraq Enterprise (Baghdad, Iraq)
• Iraq Occupation and Resistance Report by Stephen Soldz (Massachusetts, USA)
• Iraq Oil Report by Ben Lando (Washington DC, USA)
• Iraq Reconstruction News by James Durso (USA)
• Just World News by Helena Cobban (Virginia, USA)
• Mafhoum by Samir Aita (Beirut, Lebanon)
• Media Patrol by Cursor (Minnesota, USA)
• Michigan Peaceworks (Michigan, USA)
• Middle East Policy Council (Washington, DC, USA)
• Minorités.org (Belgium/Netherlands)
• Missing Links by Badger
• OGEL Global Energy Law Portal
• Open Democracy (London, UK)
• Political Notes by Richard Stallman (Massachusetts, USA)
• Pray4Iraq by Eisa Ali (UK)
• Total Information Awareness by Eric Martin
• War in Context by Paul Woodward
• War Report by the Project on Defense Alternatives (Massachusetts, USA)
  

Online reports and articles where historiae.org is used as a source

• Al Mallak, Husam, “Undermining Iraq: A Commentary on the Iraqi VP’s Views”, in The Middle East in London, March 2007
• Beinart, Peter, We Broke It, The New Republic, 18 December 2006
• Beinart, Peter, “Stop Obsessing About Iran”, Time Magazine, 19 January 2007
• Blanchard, Christopher M., Iraq: “Oil and Gas Legislation, Revenue Sharing, and U.S. Policy”, CRS Report for Congress, 26 June 2007
• Chaulia, Sreeram, “Shiites and Democracy”, Mideast Monitor, vol. 2, no. 1, June/July 2007
• Dodge, Toby, How Iraq Was Lost, Survival vol. 48 no. 4, Winter 2006–2007
• Feldman, Noah & Roman Martinez, “Constitutional Politics and Text in the New Iraq: An Experiment in Islamic Democracy”, Fordham Law Review, December 2006
• Harling, Peter, “Les dynamiques du conflit irakien” in Critique internationale, no. 34, 2007
• Hiltermann, Joost, Iraq and the New Sectarianism in the Middle East
• International Crisis Group, After Baker–Hamilton: What To Do in Iraq? Middle East Report no. 60, 19 December 2006
• International Crisis Group, Where Is Iraq Heading? Lessons from Basra, Middle East Report no. 67, 25 June 2007
• Katulis, Brian, Lawrence J. Korb & Peter Juul, “Strategic Reset: Reclaiming Control of U.S. Security in the Middle East”, Center for American Progress, June 2006
• Kaur, Ravinder, “India and Pakistan: Partition Lessons”, openDemocracy, 16 August 2007
• Khalaji, Mehdi, “The Last Marja: Sistani and the End of Traditional Religious Authority in Shiism” Policy Focus no. 59, September 2006
• Knights, Michael, “Increased Factional Fighting Pulls Basra Towards Chaos”, Jane’s Intelligence Review, December 2006
• Knights, Michael and Ed Williams, “The Calm Before the Storm: The British Experience in Southern Iraq”, Policy Focus no. 66, February 2007
• Oppenheimer, Todd, Arrogance and Ignorance, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 October 2006
• Pany, Thomas, “SIIC der blinde Fleck”, Telepolis, 22 May 2007
• Pany, Thomas, ” Erpressung und Rechthaberei”, Telepolis, 30 March 2007
• Rahimi, Babak, “Ayatollah Sistani and the Democratization of Post-Baathist Iraq”, USIP Special Report no. 187, June 2007
• Rahimi, Babak, “A Shiite Storm Looms on the Horizon: Sadr and SIIC Relations”, in Terrorism Monitor, 24 May 2007
• Rodenbeck, Max, The Time of the Shia, New York Review of Books vol. 53 no. 13, 10 August 2006
• Stansfield, Gareth, “Accepting Realities in Iraq”, Chatham House Middle East Programme Briefing Paper, May 2007
• Steinberg, Guido, “Between Pragmatism and ‘Confessional Cleansing’: Shiite Islamists in Iraq”, in Muriel Asseburg (ed.), Moderate Islamists as Reform Actors, SWP Research Paper, April 2007
• Toensing, Chris, “Persian Ghosts”, The Nation, 2 July 2007
• Zuhur, Sherifa D., Iran, Iraq and the United States: The New Triangle’s Impact Upon Sectarianism and the Nuclear Threat, Strategic Studies Institute, 2006