Tareq Y. Ismael
Author of Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change
About the Author
Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada, President of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, and the Secretary-General of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies.
Works by Tareq Y. Ismael
The Communist Movement in the Arab World (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series) (2004) 5 copies
The International Relations of the Contemporary Middle East: Subordination and After (2013) 4 copies
The International Relations of the Middle East in the 21st Century: Patterns of Continuity and Change (2016) 4 copies
International Relations of the Contemporary Middle East (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Paperback)) (1986) 3 copies
Iraq in the Twenty-First Century: Regime Change and the Making of a Failed State (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic… (2015) 2 copies
Canada And The Middle East: The Foreign Policy Of A Client State (Contemporary issues) (1994) 2 copies
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Unlike the author’s book on the Sudanese Communist Party, in this book the author almost exclusively focuses on the various schisms in the Iraqi Communist Party, with the majority of the book consisting of large block quotes of various reports and resolutions and their corresponding counter-reports and counter-resolutions between the various schisms. This is especially true during the period between the Pol Pot-style slaughter of communists by the Baathist regime in 1963 and the Anglo-American occupation in 2003. Any major domestic or political event within that period — the Iran-Iraq War, the Iranian Revolution, the Gulf War, the Kurdish rebellions, etc. — is discussed only insofar as it affected the formation or destruction of the various factions within the Iraqi Communist Party.
Although there were sections, especially near the end, that I thought were interesting, the overwhelming majority of the book consists of reports, resolutions, and congresses (or lack thereof), which I found tiresome and monotonous after a while.… (more)