| Contents |
List of Photographs -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dedication -- 1. My upbringing -- 2. In public life: the literary forum -- 3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress -- 4. Faisal in Iraq -- 5. Democracy in Iraq -- 6. Oil concessions -- 7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash -- 8. On Iraqi politics -- 9. My first term as Prime Minister -- 10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Saʻdun -- 11. Nuri al-Saʻid enters the scene -- 12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran -- 13. At the League of Nations -- 14. The ill-fated coups begin -- 15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara -- 16. Events on the brink of war -- 17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue -- 18. Unrest in Iraq -- 19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes -- 20. The Arab League -- 21. My second term as Prime Minister -- 22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948 -- 23. My third term as Prime Minister -- 24. The era of king Faisal II -- 25. The Baghdad Pact -- 26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal -- 27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement -- 28. The Arab Federation -- 29. Iraq and Kuwait -- 30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958 -- 31. The view from exile -- 32. Conclusion. |
