Raymond W. Baker & Shereen T. Ismael 
Cultural Cleansing in Iraq [PDF ebook] 
Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered

Dedication
Preface
Part I: Formulating and Executing the Policy of Cultural Cleansing
1. Introduction by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael and Tareq Y. Ismael
2. Cultural Cleansing in Comparative Perspective by Glenn E. Perry
Part II: Policy in Motion: Destroying the Past, Killing the Future
Part A: The Assault on Iraq’s Incomparable History
3.Archaeology and the Strategies of War by Zainab Bahrani
4. The Status of Iraq’s Archaeological Heritage: Report on the Destruction of Archaeological Sites, Museums and Historical Monuments in Occupied Iraq by Abbas Husainy
5. Negligient Mnemocide and the Shattering of Iraqi Collective Memory by Nabil Al Tikriti (University of Mary Washington, USA)
Part B: The Present and the Future
6. Killing the Intellectual Class by Dahr Jamil and Max Fuller
Dirk Adriaensens
7. The Purging of Minds by Philip Marfleet
8. Minorities in Iraq: The Other Victims by Mokhtar Lamani
Part III: Appendices
Appendix I. Reflections on Death Anxiety and University Professors in Iraq by Faris K. O. Nadhmi
Appendix II. List of Murdered Academics
About the Contributors
Index

Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada and President of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University. His most recent works include Middle Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (Pluto, 2009), The Iraqi Predicament (Pluto, 2004) and Iraq (Pluto, 2003).