Area Handbook on Iraq

activities agricultural Ahali Arab countries Arab League Arbil Baghdad Baghdad Pact Bank Basra batn Bedouin Britain British Cabinet Chapter Christians cities clan Communist companies constitution crops desert Development Board economic Egypt elder politicians ernment established estimated Euphrates export Faysal fellah foreign hectares HRAF IBRD important increase independent politician industrial Iran Iraq Iraq's Iraqi Government irrigation Islam King Kirkuk Kurdish Kurds labor land leaders League of Nations live Liwa loans majority mallak Mandaeans mandate marriage ment meters million Moslem Mosul mukhtar nationalist nomadic Nuri operations Ordinary Budget organized Ottoman Pact Parliament parties patterns petroleum poetry poets political population port prestige Prime Minister recent religious river sayyid sharecropping sheikh Shi'a social Sunni Syria Tigris tion towns traditional treaty tribal tribe Turkey Turkish upper class usually village Western Yazidis