Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan

by Nicole F. Watts

A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee

In the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people, the Iraqi Kurds. Five thousand people died in what became known as the Halabja Massacre, which has been deemed the worst chemical attack in history. Nicole F. Watts, a former journalist and now professor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479823066
• ISBN13: 9781479823062
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"