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A lengthy, up-to-date biography of Saddam, based on personal encounters with both the dictator and his system.
Said K. Aburish,
Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999).
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An overview of the Kurdish struggle for self-determination within Turkey, government repression, and the implications of the conflict for Turkish democracy.
A brief overview of Kurdish history and the modern struggle for autonomy/independence, written for young readers.
An overview of Saddam Hussein's rise to power and his strategy of survival after the disastrous Gulf War. "A sober and balanced yet intrigue-filled book ... among the most coherent and accessible of any book on Iraq to date." - New York Times Book Review
A dispassionate account of events in Iraqi Kurdistan since the end of the Gulf War, with a detailed analysis of factional infighting between the KDP and PUK.
The updated edition of McDowall's massive and classic history of the Kurds.
Henri J. Barkey et al.,
Turkey's Kurdish Question
(Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
Kari Bodnarchuk,
Kurdistan: Region Under Siege
(Lerner Publications Co., 2000).
Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn,
Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein
(HarperCollins, 1999).
Michael M. Gunter,
The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Analysis
(St. Martin's Press, 1999).
David McDowall,
A Modern History of the Kurds
(I.B. Tauris & Co., 2001).
An updated edition of Makiya's work (originally written under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil), giving an insider's perspective on "the chamber of horrors that is Saddam Hussein's Iraq."
Kanan Makiya,
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq
(University of California Press, 1998).
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Makiya's follow-up to Republic of Fear examines tyranny and intellectual complicity across the Arab world. Includes two chapters on the Anfal campaign.
Kanan Makiya,
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
(Norton, 1993).
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A project coordinated by Meiselas, the famed war photographer, and featuring ethnographic commentary by anthropologist Martin van Bruinessen. Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, and historical documents.
Susan Meiselas et al.,
Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
(Random House, 1997).
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A highly-readable journalist's account that explores the author's long fascination with the Kurds. Very strong on the U.S. betrayal of Kurdish rebel movements in the 1970s.
Jonathan C. Randal,
After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters with Kurdistan
(Westview Press, 1999).
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Thornhill, an English barrister, travelled through the Kurdish regions of Iraq in 1993 and returned with this colourful and perceptive account of the Kurds' nation-building efforts.
Teresa Thornhill,
Sweet Tea with Cardamom: A Journey through Iraqi Kurdistan
(Rivers Oram Press, 1999).
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"Seven years after the [Gulf] war, Saddam's regime remains in place, his power is rising, and his diplomatic situation is steadily improving. ... Wurmser offers historical and contemporary analysis of the Iraqi morass and outlines credible and effective strategies for U.S. policy to adopt." (Jacket copy)
David Wurmser,
Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein
(AEI Press, 1999).
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Available only from Human Rights Watch:
The most exhaustive and comprehensive examination in English of the genocidal atrocities inflicted on Iraqi Kurds during the Anfal campaign.
Focuses on the mass killing of 27 Kurdish men and adolescent boys by Saddam's forces during Anfal, and the forensic investigations of the site conducted after the Gulf War.
Iraq's Crime of Genocide: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds
(Human Rights Watch/Yale University Press, 1994.)
The Anfal Campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan: The Destruction of Koreme
(Human Rights Watch, 1993.)