Although the Ottoman-tribal relations has been undermined to “state-tribe” conflict, it is a sophisticated relation. Çiçek focuses on by shedding light how Ottoman governments treated, reacted, and negotiated with Anizah Shammar tribes. (These tribes were wide across in vast geography from south of Mardin Urfa Turkey large part today’s north central Syria Iraq.) Çiçek’s book consists seven chap...


 The reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtafī (r. 1136–1160) was one great historical significance. Despite his having been chosen and elevated to caliphate by Seljuq sultans during nadir power, after they had murdered deposed another, it who finally succeeded in reestablishing political rule over Iraq. This article traces course al-Muqtafī’s relations with sultans, analyzes how why he revi...

In this article, we investigate the emergence of modern environmentalism in Kurdistan Region (Iraq), a de facto state which ecological well-being is under serious strain. Social mobilizations Middle East have been depicted as confrontational and opposing authorities. Studies environmental activism region also highlighted conflictual relations between social actors holders power. stress need to ...

BACKGROUND Deployment to the 2003 Iraq War was associated with ill health in reserve armed forces personnel. AIMS To investigate reasons for the excess of ill health in reservists. METHOD UK personnel who were deployed to the 2003 Iraq War completed a health survey about experiences on deployment to Iraq. Health status was measured using self-report of common mental disorders, post-traumati...

Medical education in Iraq was one of the best educational systems in the region, especially during the 1980s. Following this golden period, the educational system suffered from regression and descent in both the academic curriculums that are taught and teaching techniques of both undergraduate and postgraduate physicians. This was due to multiple factors: including the wars, sectarian conflicts...

Regional geopolitical conditions shaped after the First World War enabled Iran to establish close relations with Iraqi Kurds. During this period, between Iran, who wanted protect its interests in region against Iraq, and Kurds rule themselves, were within framework of Iran's general Baghdad administration.After US invasion Iraq 2003, transformed. As a result fall Saddam Hussein, priorities have...

The varieties of marriage described by Manu and accepted by Vatsyayana are mentioned. The qualities of the bride and bridegroom for an ideal marriage are enumerated by Vatsyayana. The Shastraic view of the same along with the valid conditions of a Hindu Marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 are contrasted. The role of the virtuous wife in house-keeping and looking after the husband, accor...

The limited availability of the recorded rainfall-runoff data for many watersheds restricts development and management different activities water resources. To overcome this limitation, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) estimating storm excess rainfall momentum optimization methods were combined in a mathematical model to estimate optimal parameters Nash Instantaneous unit hydrograp...

In the week before the 2003 American attack on Iraq, the effects of authoritarianism and the social dominance orientation on support for the attack were examined. Based on prior research on the nature of these constructs, a structural model was developed and tested. As predicted, authoritarianism strengthened support for the attack by intensifying the perception that Iraq threatened America. So...

We describe the Iraq Body Count Corpus (IBC-C) dataset, the first substantial armed conflict-related dataset which can be used for conflict analysis. IBCC provides a ground-truth dataset for conflict specific named entity recognition, slot filling, and event de-duplication. IBCC is constructed using data collected by the Iraq Body Count project which has been recording incidents from the ongoin...