Negotiating the Place of Assyrians in Modern Iraq, 1960–1988

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dc.contributor.advisorWien, Peteren_US
dc.contributor.authorBenjamen, Aldaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-18T06:02:09Z
dc.date.available2015-09-18T06:02:09Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation deals with the social, intellectual, cultural, and political history of the Assyrians under changing regimes from the 1960s to the 1980s. It examines the place of Assyrians in relation to a state that was increasing in strength and influence, and locates their interactions within socio-political movements that were generally associated with the Iraqi opposition. It analyzes the ways in which Assyrians contextualized themselves in their society and negotiated for social, cultural, and political rights both from the state and from the movements with which they were affiliated. Assyrians began migrating to urban Iraqi centers in the second half of the twentieth century, and in the process became more integrated into their societies. But their native towns and villages in northern Iraq continued to occupy an important place in their communal identity, while interactions between rural and urban Assyrians were ongoing. Although substantially integrated in Iraqi society, Assyrians continued to retain aspects of the transnational character of their community. Transnational interactions between Iraqi Assyrians and Assyrians in neighboring countries and the diaspora are therefore another important phenomenon examined in this dissertation. Finally, the role of Assyrian women in these movements, and their portrayal by intellectuals, will be evaluated using a gendered perspective.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2MS86
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/17105
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMiddle Eastern historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAssyriansen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIntellectual Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIraqen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMinoritiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTransnationalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWomenen_US
dc.titleNegotiating the Place of Assyrians in Modern Iraq, 1960–1988en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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