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Targeting the Cultural History of Iraq Part I

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Targeting the Cultural History of Iraq: Implications for Nationalism and Democracy (Part I). A presentation given by Mr Benjamin Isakhan at the University of Queensland Cultural History Project Work in Progress Symposium, 21 November 2008. For more, go to www.benjaminisakhan.com

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  • You are perhaps the ignorant one? The reason why scholars use the word Mesopotamia these days has got little to do with the alleged 'Greek exonym' (which is in fact a translation of a general term used about the region by the Persian Empire in the 5th c. BCE), but rather, because it remains a convenient word for a region that does not only refer to a strip of territory inside the modern nation-state of Iraq, but also includes areas in Syria, Iran and Turkey.

  • You ignorant snake.

    Iraqis are one people and Mesopotamia is our history, our more than 12'000 year history.

    The Iraqi nation demands that academia abandon the Greek exonym "Mesopotamia" in favour of "Ancient Iraq".

    Iraqis will lobby for this.

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