My memoirs : half a century of the history of Iraq and the Arab cause / Tawfiq al-Suwaydi ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts ; with an Introduction by Antony T. Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suwaydī, Tawfīq, 1892-1968, author.

Contributor:

Roberts, Nancy, translator.

Standardized Title:

Mudhakkirātī. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suwaydī, Tawfīq, 1892-1968.

Suwaydī, Tawfīq.

Politicians--Iraq--Biography.

Politicians.

Iraq--Politics and government.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (563 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These memoirs of the distinguished Iraqi statesman Tawfiq al-Suwaydi (1892-1968) evocatively recapture a now largely vanished Arab world--and are an eloquent reminder that Iraq was once a far more open and tolerant society than it is today. Al-Suwaydi served as Iraq's prime minister three times (1929, 1946, 1950), as foreign minister on numerous occasions, and as ambassador to Iran, the League of Nations, and the United Nations. He frequently undertook sensitive diplomatic missions on behalf of the Iraqi monarchy. Among the major world figures with whom he interacted personally were Kemal Ataturk, Adnan Menderes, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, John Foster Dulles, Anthony Eden, George Curzon, Benito Mussolini, George Antonius, and Kings Abdullah, Faisal, Hussein, and Ibn Saud. From this vantage point, he wrote with an insider's detail about the diplomatic, political, and geostrategic issues that vexed Iraq and the entire Arab world from the early twentieth century through mid-1960s. A comprehensive essay by Antony T. Sullivan, senior associate for Middle East affairs at TerraBuilt Corporation International, introduces this first English-language edition of the memoirs.

Contents:

List of Photographs

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Dedication

1. My upbringing

2. In public life: the literary forum

3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress

4. Faisal in Iraq

5. Democracy in Iraq

6. Oil concessions

7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash

8. On Iraqi politics

9. My first term as Prime Minister

10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Saʻdun

11. Nuri al-Saʻid enters the scene

12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran

13. At the League of Nations

14. The ill-fated coups begin

15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara

16. Events on the brink of war

17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue

18. Unrest in Iraq

19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes

20. The Arab League

21. My second term as Prime Minister

22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948

23. My third term as Prime Minister

24. The era of king Faisal II

25. The Baghdad Pact

26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal

27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement

28. The Arab Federation

29. Iraq and Kuwait

30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958

31. The view from exile

32. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-396-5

OCLC:

936698367