Culture, History & Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968-89
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xviii, 196, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ink notation of '1991' on title page. Ink underlinings and notations to early part of text. DJ has some wear and soiling. Dr. Amatzia Baram is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow, as well as a professor emeritus at the Department of the History of the Middle East and Director of the Centre for Iraq Studies at the University of Haifa. Professor Baram served as an officer and commanded tank units in the Armored Corps during his regular military service from 1956 to 1960 and while in the reserves. Following the Six Day War in 1967 and started his education as an historian of the modern Middle East and Islam in 1971. He was “on loan” to the Iraqi desk at Military Intelligence as an analyst when the Iraq-Iran War began in 1980. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1986 for a dissertation on Baathi Iraq. He has taught at the University of Haifa since then. He wrote studies and lectured on Iraqi society for the American military between 2005 and 2009. He served as chairman of the Department of Middle East History and as Director of the Jewish-Arab Center in Haifa University and in the Institute for Middle East Studies. He is the founder and director of the Center for Iraq Studies at the University of Haifa. His main fields of study have been: Iraq 1920-2013: politics, religion, culture and society, with an emphasis on 1968-2011; Tribe and state in the Middle East; The Arab Shia; Political Islam; Baathi Syria. Professor Baram has advised the Israeli government and since 1986 also the U.S. government on Iraq and the Persian Gulf. More