Amatzia Baram
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 972965 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amatzia Baram |
| NOMBRES | Amatzia |
| APELLIDO | Baram |
| FIRMA | BARAM A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Haifa |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Response by Amatzia Baram to Jacob Lassner’s “Modern Europe and Traditional Islamic Views of Jews and Judaism
Speaking Truth to Power in a Dictatorship
In July 1986, a dramatic top-secret meeting of the Baʿth Pan Arab Leadership, the party’s highest ideological body, fully recorded by Ṣaddām Ḥussein, took place in wartime Baghdad. This meeting is thrice unique. First, the medium, an unabridged, audio-recording. Second, the topic, the dilemma of many Middle Eastern ruling regimes, vacillating between a secular, or semi-secular ideology and Islamic political expediency. In the case of the Baʿth, a…
I raq
Since it was constructed by Britain as a Sunni‐hegemonic nation‐state in 1920 and a monarchy in 1921, Iraq has been confronted by sectarian (mainly Sunni–Shi'i) and ethnic (mainly Arab–Kurdish) challenges. The monarchy and its divisive tribal policy were abolished by the 1958 revolution, but the other challenges remained. The promotion of pan‐Arabism by most regimes, too, complicated the crystallization of an Iraqi national community: most Shi'is…
Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1968–2003
The "Other" Iraq
This article discusses aspects of monarchial Iraq's liberal political culture, as presented in Orit Bashkin's book, The Other Iraq. While Bashkin presents a compelling portrait of a democratic, humanistic, and pluralistic society, other features of Iraqi public life during this period, including fascist, pro-Nazi, and bigoted writings, are neglected. Accordingly, one wonders whether monarchial Iraq was indeed an "Other" Iraq, or one underpinned b…
Iraq Between Occupations
This edited volume represents a re-examination of the most central issues in the history of the Iraqi nation state until the American occupation (1920-2003) and, in the light of that history, a re-eva
The Iraqi armed forces and security apparatus
Building toward Crisis
Neo-Tribalism in Iraq
The intention of this article is to show that, when applying his tribal policies, Saddam Hussein altered the Baʿth Party's most central tenets of faith, how and why he did this, and what it meant for Iraqi society and for the ruling party. Saddam Hussein's tribal policy started soon after the party came to power in July 1968, but it went through a quantum leap in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. First, rather than eliminating the tribal shaykh…
Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968-89
A Case of Imported Identity
Amatzia Baram, A Case of Imported Identity: The Modernizing Secular Ruling Elites of Iraq and the Concept of Mesopotamian-Inspired Territorial Nationalism, 1922-1992, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period II (Summer, 1994), pp. 279-319
Mosul’s Spring Festivals
In April 1969, Mosul provided the setting for festivities of an unusual nature. On April 10, in the presence of Commander-in-Chief and RCC member General Hammad Shihab, and under the auspices of President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, the city’s ‘First Spring Festival’ was inaugurated.
Folklore and Mesopotamian Culture
Shortly after the Ba‘th accession to power, activities to promote Iraqi folklore received an enormous official boost,1 which found its initial expression in legislation. A law promulgated early in 1969 created the ‘General Directorate for Cinema and Theatre’, whose province was to include festivals and congresses devoted to folklore, and the fostering of that art and its preservation on film ‘so as to protect our historical, artistic and literary…
Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba‘thist Iraq, 1968–89
In this book, an innovative approach to the study of ideology in the Arab world explores how, through culture and the re-interpretation of history, a powerful totalitarian regime has endeavoured to ce
Territorial nationalism in the middle east
(1990). Territorial nationalism in the middle east. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 425-448
Mesopotamian identity in Ba'thi Iraq
(1983). Mesopotamian identity in Ba'thi Iraq. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 426-455
Qawmiyya and wataniyya in Ba'thi Iraq
Some people try, while talking of [the place of] Iraq in history and geography, . . . to crush [an yashaq] Iraq or to compress its size, [to make it] smaller than it should be. [This] in order to bring out the pan-Arab concepts or the issue of belonging to the bigger and wider Arab homeland and Arab people. Other people concentrate on ... Iraq, neglecting the desirable balance between this and the tie connecting Iraq to the Arab homeland.. .. The…
Neo-Tribalism in Iraq
The intention of this article is to show that, when applying his tribal policies, Saddam Hussein altered the Baʿth Party's most central tenets of faith, how and why he did this, and what it meant for Iraqi society and for the ruling party. Saddam Hussein's tribal policy started soon after the party came to power in July 1968, but it went through a quantum leap in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. First, rather than eliminating the tribal shaykh…
Territorial nationalism in the middle east
(1990). Territorial nationalism in the middle east. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 425-448
Mesopotamian identity in Ba'thi Iraq
(1983). Mesopotamian identity in Ba'thi Iraq. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 426-455
The Iraqi armed forces and security apparatus
A Case of Imported Identity
Amatzia Baram, A Case of Imported Identity: The Modernizing Secular Ruling Elites of Iraq and the Concept of Mesopotamian-Inspired Territorial Nationalism, 1922-1992, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period II (Summer, 1994), pp. 279-319
Qawmiyya and wataniyya in Ba'thi Iraq
Some people try, while talking of [the place of] Iraq in history and geography, . . . to crush [an yashaq] Iraq or to compress its size, [to make it] smaller than it should be. [This] in order to bring out the pan-Arab concepts or the issue of belonging to the bigger and wider Arab homeland and Arab people. Other people concentrate on ... Iraq, neglecting the desirable balance between this and the tie connecting Iraq to the Arab homeland.. .. The…
Mesopotamian identity in Ba'thi Iraq
(1983). Mesopotamian identity in Ba'thi Iraq. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 426-455
Qawmiyya and wataniyya in Ba'thi Iraq
Some people try, while talking of [the place of] Iraq in history and geography, . . . to crush [an yashaq] Iraq or to compress its size, [to make it] smaller than it should be. [This] in order to bring out the pan-Arab concepts or the issue of belonging to the bigger and wider Arab homeland and Arab people. Other people concentrate on ... Iraq, neglecting the desirable balance between this and the tie connecting Iraq to the Arab homeland.. .. The…
Territorial nationalism in the middle east
(1990). Territorial nationalism in the middle east. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 425-448
Mosul’s Spring Festivals
In April 1969, Mosul provided the setting for festivities of an unusual nature. On April 10, in the presence of Commander-in-Chief and RCC member General Hammad Shihab, and under the auspices of President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, the city’s ‘First Spring Festival’ was inaugurated.
Folklore and Mesopotamian Culture
Shortly after the Ba‘th accession to power, activities to promote Iraqi folklore received an enormous official boost,1 which found its initial expression in legislation. A law promulgated early in 1969 created the ‘General Directorate for Cinema and Theatre’, whose province was to include festivals and congresses devoted to folklore, and the fostering of that art and its preservation on film ‘so as to protect our historical, artistic and literary…
Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba‘thist Iraq, 1968–89
In this book, an innovative approach to the study of ideology in the Arab world explores how, through culture and the re-interpretation of history, a powerful totalitarian regime has endeavoured to ce
Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968-89
A Case of Imported Identity
Amatzia Baram, A Case of Imported Identity: The Modernizing Secular Ruling Elites of Iraq and the Concept of Mesopotamian-Inspired Territorial Nationalism, 1922-1992, Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period II (Summer, 1994), pp. 279-319
Neo-Tribalism in Iraq
The intention of this article is to show that, when applying his tribal policies, Saddam Hussein altered the Baʿth Party's most central tenets of faith, how and why he did this, and what it meant for Iraqi society and for the ruling party. Saddam Hussein's tribal policy started soon after the party came to power in July 1968, but it went through a quantum leap in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. First, rather than eliminating the tribal shaykh…
Building toward Crisis
The Iraqi armed forces and security apparatus
Iraq Between Occupations
This edited volume represents a re-examination of the most central issues in the history of the Iraqi nation state until the American occupation (1920-2003) and, in the light of that history, a re-eva
The "Other" Iraq
This article discusses aspects of monarchial Iraq's liberal political culture, as presented in Orit Bashkin's book, The Other Iraq. While Bashkin presents a compelling portrait of a democratic, humanistic, and pluralistic society, other features of Iraqi public life during this period, including fascist, pro-Nazi, and bigoted writings, are neglected. Accordingly, one wonders whether monarchial Iraq was indeed an "Other" Iraq, or one underpinned b…
Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1968–2003
I raq
Since it was constructed by Britain as a Sunni‐hegemonic nation‐state in 1920 and a monarchy in 1921, Iraq has been confronted by sectarian (mainly Sunni–Shi'i) and ethnic (mainly Arab–Kurdish) challenges. The monarchy and its divisive tribal policy were abolished by the 1958 revolution, but the other challenges remained. The promotion of pan‐Arabism by most regimes, too, complicated the crystallization of an Iraqi national community: most Shi'is…
Speaking Truth to Power in a Dictatorship
In July 1986, a dramatic top-secret meeting of the Baʿth Pan Arab Leadership, the party’s highest ideological body, fully recorded by Ṣaddām Ḥussein, took place in wartime Baghdad. This meeting is thrice unique. First, the medium, an unabridged, audio-recording. Second, the topic, the dilemma of many Middle Eastern ruling regimes, vacillating between a secular, or semi-secular ideology and Islamic political expediency. In the case of the Baʿth, a…
Response by Amatzia Baram to Jacob Lassner’s “Modern Europe and Traditional Islamic Views of Jews and Judaism
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