LEADER 04041nam 2200565 450 001 9910807258803321 005 20230803015343.0 010 $a1-62637-396-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781626373969 035 $a(CKB)3710000000769351 035 $a(EBL)4451551 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001695992 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16542876 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001695992 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14176911 035 $a(PQKB)25088315 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4451551 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11271498 035 $a(OCoLC)936698367 035 $a(DE-B1597)623254 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781626373969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4451551 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000769351 100 $a20130516d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMy memoirs $ehalf a century of the history of Iraq and the Arab cause /$fTawfiq al-Suwaydi ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts ; with an Introduction by Antony T. Sullivan 210 1$aBoulder, Colorado :$cLynne Rienner Publishers, Incorporated,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (563 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-58826-903-5 327 $aList 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-Sa?dun -- 11. Nuri al-Sa?id 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. 330 $aThese 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. 606 $aPoliticians$zIraq$vBiography 607 $aIraq$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPoliticians 676 $a956.704/2092 676 $aB 700 $aSuwaydi?$b Tawfi?q$f1892-1968,$01639898 702 $aRoberts$b Nancy 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807258803321 996 $aMy memoirs$93983202 997 $aUNINA