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Journal articles on the topic "Iraqi memory"
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Montgomery, Bruce P. "The Rape of Kuwait’s National Memory." International Journal of Cultural Property 22, no. 1 (February 2015): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739115000053.
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Abstract:In the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi forces prosecuted a mass campaign of pillage and destruction. Under the coordinated direction of Iraqi curators who were well acquainted with Kuwait’s cultural treasures, occupying Iraqi troops plundered thousands of cultural objects from museums, libraries, and archives. Among the pillaged cultural spoils were Kuwait’s national archives, comprising the emirate’s historical memory. Until recently, Iraq was beholden to UN sanctions demanding the return of missing persons and property, including Kuwait’s archives. Although the United Nations Security Council for many years has facilitated efforts to search for the lost archives, these efforts have proved futile. This article explores the plausibility of the two most likely scenarios surrounding the cold case of Kuwait’s missing archives: 1) that the current search for the archives has overlooked the possibility that they were unknowingly seized by US forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and are currently being held by the Pentagon; and 2) that the archives may have been intentionally destroyed as part of Saddam Hussein’s aim to obliterate Kuwait’s national identity and annex the emirate as Iraq’s nineteenth province.
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Dorval, Amanda Raquel. "The Iraqi Ba'ath Archives: Collective Memory Loss and Authoritarian Nostalgia in the Post-Saddam Era." Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 5, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 204–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/libraries.5.2.0204.
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Abstract This article analyzes how the seizure of the Ba'ath archives from Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 influenced the country's memory landscape and rise in pro-Ba'ath authoritarian nostalgia (hanin). Literature on the Ba'ath archives has focused on the ethics of their removal, custodianship, and laws governing war archives. However, there has been virtually no literature analyzing the long-term consequences of this removal on Iraqi collective memory or examining Ba'ath nostalgia in a larger dialogue about Iraqi archives. Has the removal of the Ba'ath records distorted Iraq's post-regime memory landscape, and is this a factor in the rise of authoritarian nostalgia? By reviewing existing literature on archives and collective memory, examining instances of Ba'ath nostalgia in Iraq, exploring effects of de-Ba'athification on the education system, and comparing Iraq's situation to South Africa, this article will contemplate the effects of archives loss on Iraqi memory distortion and authoritarian nostalgia.
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Montgomery, Bruce P. "Immortality in the Secret Police Files: The Iraq Memory Foundation and the Baath Party Archive." International Journal of Cultural Property 18, no. 3 (August 2011): 309–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s094073911100018x.
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AbstractShortly after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, Kanan Makiya, a long time Iraqi dissident and professor of Middle East studies at Brandeis University, uncovered a major trove of documents belonging to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and his security forces. The documents proved highly important in reflecting the inner workings of the Baath Party system in his final years in power. Soon after the discovery of the documents, the Iraq Memory Foundation (IMF), a private Washington, D.C.–based group founded by Makiya, took custody of the records, later depositing them with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to provide a safe haven for them. The deal ignited immediate international controversy and charges of pillage from some Iraqi officials, archival organizations, scholars, and others who also demanded their immediate return to the Iraq National Library and Archive in Baghdad. On the surface, these charges of theft and plunder appear plausible enough, but on examination, a different and complicated narrative emerges in light of the conventions of war, U.S. law, and the Iraqi penal code, as well as the chain of events surrounding their taking and removal by nonstate actors in the Iraqi theatre of war and occupation.
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Ismail Mousa, Sayed M., and Ghassan Nawaf Jaber Alhomoud. "Exploring the Literary Representation of Trauma in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction from Socio-historical Perspective." World Journal of English Language 12, no. 1 (January 28, 2022): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v12n1p162.
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The present study aims to critically review the aspects of war in selected Iraqi war novels— Sinan Antoon, The Baghdad Eucharist (2017), Corpse Washer (2013) Zauhair Jabouri, The Corpse Hunter (2014)—that focus on depicting vividly the traumatic experiences of Iraqi, particularly after the US-led invasion of Iraq 2003 and how these novels could recur constantly to humanist themes and traumatized figures, the psychological suffering of minorities and the oppressed. In other words, it aims to make visible specific historical instances of trauma in Iraqi war fiction. The present study undertakes an in-depth investigation of the socio-political and historical dimensions of Cathy Caruth’s literary trauma simply because trauma experiences in Iraq were emanated from several causes such as social injustice, the oppression of minorities, political despotism, and the persecution of religious minorities, the displacement of Iraqis from the homeland, and the genocidal policies of jihadist. The study has found that Iraqi war fiction depends on the stylistic technique of repeating certain expressions, phrases, and lexical items to intensify the extraordinary events. It is a narrative of traumatic haunting known for its non-linear and circular style that often leads to ambiguity where readers are often unable to decode the authorial intentions, deriving its ambiguity from the traits of dreams and nightmares, the interpretations of which are continually and unredeemably haunted by the memory of loss.
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Isakhan, Benjamin. "Targeting the Symbolic Dimension of Baathist Iraq: Cultural Destruction, Historical Memory, and National Identity." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 4, no. 3 (2011): 257–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187398611x590200.
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AbstractThis article examines the systematic efforts to dismantle or destroy the symbolic dimension of the Baathist regime in Iraq since 2003. It argues that while the Baath were undeniably cruel and oppressive, they did undertake one of the twentieth century's most robust attempts to utilize the political power of historical memory to create a unified Iraqi national identity. However, while many have examined the militaristic or bureaucratic dimensions of de-Baathification, no such attempts have been made to examine the destruction of the symbols and monuments of the Baathist state and the consequences this has had for Iraqi national identity. This article addresses this paucity and concludes that with the symbolic destruction of the Baathist state has come a near complete erosion of the Iraqi brand of nationalism that the Baath had managed to promulgate to varying degrees of success since the late 1960s.
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SHEM-TOV, NAPHTALY. "Performing Iraqi-Jewish History on the Israeli Stage." Theatre Research International 44, no. 3 (October 2019): 248–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883319000294.
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The analysis of the following two Israeli plays is the focus of this article: Ghosts in the Cellar (Haifa Theatre, 1983) by Sami Michael, and The Father's Daughters (Hashahar Theatre, 2015) by Gilit Itzhaki. These plays deal with the Farhud – a pogrom which took place in Iraq in 1941, in which two hundred Iraqi Jews were massacred by an Iraqi nationalist mob. The Farhud has become a traumatic event in the memory of this Jewish community. Using the concept of ‘performing history’ as advanced by Freddie Rokem, I observe how these plays, as theatre of a marginalized group, engage in the production of memory and history as well as in the processing of grief. These plays present the Farhud and correspond with the Zionist narrative in two respects: (1) they present the traumatic historical event of these Middle Eastern Jews in the light of its disappearance in Zionist history, and (2) their performance includes Arab cultural and language elements of Iraqi-Jewish identity, and thus implicitly points out the complex situation of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
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Rossetti, Chip. "Messages in Bottles: An Archive of Black Iraqi Identity in Diaa Jubaili’s al-Biṭrīq al-Aswad." Humanities 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10020082.
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The novel al-Biṭrīq al-Aswad [The Black Penguin] by the Iraqi author Diaa Jubaili is a rare example of a contemporary Arabic novel that centers the experiences of Iraq’s Black population, most of whom live near Basra in Iraq’s south. The novel’s mixed-race narrator recounts his life story in the form of letters addressed to international figures, highlighting the life of his family on the margins of Iraqi society and his later involvement with the real-life civil rights group, the Movement of Free Iraqis. This article draws on Stuart Hall’s dual conception of cultural identity in diaspora to frame the characters’ search for a Black Iraqi identity as a dynamic engagement with memory, one that represents a counternarrative in the face of legacies of African slavery and legal discrimination.
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Alaameri, Zahra Hasan Oleiwi, and Mustafa Abdulsahib Faihan. "Forecasting the Accounting Profits of the Banks Listed in Iraq Stock Exchange Using Artificial Neural Networks." Webology 19, no. 1 (January 20, 2022): 2669–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14704/web/v19i1/web19177.
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This paper demonstrates the feasibility of using deep learning approaches in time series forecasting of bank profits. Two types of neural networks were used, LSTM (Long-Short Term Memory) and NAR (Nonlinear Autoregressive) networks, for comparison. The data from 12 Iraqi banks, which are registered in the Iraq stock exchange, were involved in this study for sixteen years (2004-2019). RMSE and MAPE were used for comparing the performance of the two models (LSTM and NAR). Our results showed that the NAR is more accurate than LSTM for the prediction of profits. And that the use of the NAR network by the Iraqi banks will help them predict future accounting profits.
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Lewandowsky, Stephan, Werner G. K. Stritzke, Klaus Oberauer, and Michael Morales. "Memory for Fact, Fiction, and Misinformation." Psychological Science 16, no. 3 (March 2005): 190–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00802.x.
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Media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War frequently contained corrections and retractions of earlier information. For example, claims that Iraqi forces executed coalition prisoners of war after they surrendered were retracted the day after the claims were made. Similarly, tentative initial reports about the discovery of weapons of mass destruction were all later disconfirmed. We investigated the effects of these retractions and disconfirmations on people's memory for and beliefs about war-related events in two coalition countries (Australia and the United States) and one country that opposed the war (Germany). Participants were queried about (a) true events, (b) events initially presented as fact but subsequently retracted, and (c) fictional events. Participants in the United States did not show sensitivity to the correction of misinformation, whereas participants in Australia and Germany discounted corrected misinformation. Our results are consistent with previous findings in that the differences between samples reflect greater suspicion about the motives underlying the war among people in Australia and Germany than among people in the United States.
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Meir-Glitzenstein, E. "Our Dowry: Identity and Memory among Iraqi Immigrants in Israel." Middle Eastern Studies 38, no. 2 (April 2002): 165–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714004453.
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Jabur, Nazar. "Iraqi memory in performance : life narratives, creativity and strategies of artist during and after war. Historical memory, refugees and performance." Thesis, Curtin University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/365.
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The Iraqi Memory Project is practice-led research: How can an artistic inquiry further the exchanges between historical events and life narratives in performance? This thesis comprises: 1) my autobiographical sketches about my experiences in and out of Iraq for the last 31 years of my life. 2) Data in interviews and questionnaires with refugees and exiled Iraqi artists.2 The data transformed into transcripts and used in the creative process of Participatory Action Research (PAR) with Australian performers for presentation of the Iraqi Nights performance.This thesis contains: In the first chapter, my autobiographical sketches combine the stories of leaving and returning home with my reflections and analyses to these journeys. Second is the poetic form of these narratives entitled: Rooms In the second chapter, I reflect on interviews with Iraqi exiled artists (aged 45-78) about their lived experiences and creative artworks. The data was gathered through semi-structured and narrative interviews. The ethnographic account is from the native Iraqi point of view and reflects on everyday life stories. It is all about our memories and how we precise our experiences, a live memory versus unfinished memories in time. In the third chapter, I wrote about the process of making the performance Iraqi Nights as a cultural production that can play a significant role in communicating historical events as exposed to multiple influences through everyday life narratives and making in performing arts. I have made an electronic version for the performance as documentation of the project online: www.vimeo.com/ommi/
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Lindqvist, Maria. "Promised Soils : Senses of Place Among Yezidis in Dalarna and Sheikhan." Licentiate thesis, Södertörns högskola, Religionsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-44021.
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This is an ethnographic study that focuses on Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna, the Yezidi cemetery, in Borlänge. The Swedish town of Borlänge has one of the largest Yezidi diaspora communities in Western Europe; a majority emigrated from the Northern Iraqi region of Sheikhan during the 1990s and early 2000s. The overall aim of this project is to investigate how the Yezidi community in Borlänge puts Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna into use, the meanings ascribed to the site by individual interviewees, and how these relate to ritual places and practices in Sheikhan. The empirical material stems from observations and interviews among members of three extended Yezidi families in Borlänge and in Sheikhan, and archival material from the Church of Sweden. Fieldwork in Sheikhan focused on the valley of Lalish and the cemetery sites in the Yezidi villages in Sheikhan. The empirical material is presented, analysed and discussed through a theoretical framework of place, creation and maintenance of social memory through ritual practice, and the concept of transfer of ritual. The empirical material reveals that salient ritual actions and elements from ceremonies in Lalish and the Yezidi villages in Sheikhan are transferred to Borlänge, and there put into use for ritual practices and for creating and maintaining a collective identity outside of Iraq.
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Creed, Pamela M. "Myth, memory and militarism the evolution of an American war narrative /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/5634.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2009.Vita: p. 370. Thesis director: Dan Rothbart. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-369). Also issued in print.
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Demczuk, Paula Grechinski. "FERROVIA E TURISMO: REFLEXÕES SOBRE O PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL FERROVIÁRIO EM IRATI (PR)." UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA, 2011. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/540.
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Previous issue date: 2011-04-01This work seeks to reflect about the railroad as a historical and cultural heritage of the city of Irati-PR, with the objective is examine the touristic use of the railway cultural heritage on this. Therefore, it is necessary to contextualize the railroad in the historical development of the city, the recognition of railway cultural heritage by the community, and analysis the public politics for the protection of railway heritage in the city. At the end of the survey, after the theoric discussion and field research in the form of interviews with government and community, is possible to see the influence of the railroad to develop Irati. This influence is recognized by the people and the government, but there are no actions to preserve the railroad heritage. Being considered as a representative element of memory and identity of the local community, the railroad can be analyzed as a potential tourism product for the city, especially for the purpose of preservation and enhancement of heritage railways. However, before the railroad being used as a tourism product, it must be as an instrument of culture appreciation for the community to be an important benchmark of identity with the past.
Este trabalho busca realizar uma reflexão sobre a ferrovia como patrimônio histórico e cultural do município de Irati-PR, tendo como objetivo geral analisar a possibilidade de uso turístico do patrimônio cultural ferroviário neste. Para tanto, fez-se necessário contextualizar a ferrovia no processo histórico de desenvolvimento do município; o reconhecimento do patrimônio cultural ferroviário de Irati por parte da comunidade iratiense; e a análise das políticas públicas voltadas à proteção do patrimônio ferroviário no município. Ao fim da pesquisa, depois de realizado levantamento teórico e pesquisa de campo na forma de entrevistas com o poder público e comunidade, constata-se a influência da ferrovia para o desenvolvimento de Irati, influência esta que é reconhecida pela população e pelo poder público. Porém, apesar deste reconhecimento, ainda não existem ações para preservação do patrimônio ferroviário. Sendo considerada como um elemento representativo da memória e identidade da comunidade local, a ferrovia em Irati pode ser analisada, portanto, como um potencial produto turístico para o município, especialmente com o objetivo de preservação e valorização do patrimônio ferroviário. Entretanto, conclui-se principalmente que, antes de ser explorada como produto turístico, ela deve servir como instrumento de valorização da cultura para a própria comunidade por ser um importante referencial de identidade com o passado. Palavras chave: ferrovia, memória, patrimônio cultural, turismo.
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Günther, Lena-Simone [Verfasser]. "War Experience and Trauma in American Literature : A Study of American Military Memoirs of Operation Iraqi Freedom / Lena-Simone Günther." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1090773498/34.
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Pazinato, Paula Giovana. "Crustáceos Malacostraca do Membro Taquaral, formação Irati, Permiano inferior da Bacia do Paraná : sistemática, tafonomia e paleoecologia /." Rio Claro, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151848.
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Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta uma análise dos crustáceos Malacostraca do Membro Taquaral, unidade basal da Formação Irati, de idade artinskiana-kunguriana do Cisuraliano (época inicial do Permiano), de um afloramento próximo ao Rio Passa Cinco, Município de Rio Claro, São Paulo. Normalmente, o membro é caracterizado por pelitos escuros com cristais dispersos de pirita, porém uma intrusão básica cretácea na área do afloramento alterou as rochas localmente para pelitos róseos pouco friáveis. Os fósseis do membro são pouco diversificados, limitando-se a pequenos restos de peixes paleonisciformes e celacantiformes, minúsculos bivalves (somente numa delgada camada), alguns palinomorfos incluindo raros acritarcas, além dos crustáceos. Assume-se que o Membro Taquaral represente condições distais de um mar epicontinental raso muito restrito, possivelmente com salinidade variável, baixa energia e fundo redutor. Os crustáceos das coleções do IGCE-UNESP (Rio Claro), da FFCL-USP (Ribeirão Preto) e obtidos em novas coletas, estudados por microscopia ótica tradicional e por microscopia eletrônica de varredura, encontram-se preservados como moldes recobertos por óxido de ferro. Ocorrem três assinaturas bioestratinômicas: 1) elementos esqueletais quase totalmente articulados; 2) parcialmente articulados; e 3) como peças isoladas. Após quase um século desde a descoberta do Syncarida Clarkecaris brasilicus (Clarke, 1920), o presente estudo confirma que o primeiro segmento torácico está fusionado ao céfalo, o que requer a inclusão da espécie na ordem Anaspidacea. Julgava-se que este abundante Malacostraca fosse o único do Membro Taquaral, porém estudos recentes revelaram a existência de raros fósseis articulados e desarticulados de uma segunda espécie, aqui referida como "morfotipo 1", com preservação inclusive de moldes do trato ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This study analyses malacostracean crustaceans of the Artinskian-Kungurian (Cisuralian, Permian) Taquaral Member, basal Irati Formation of the Paraná Basin, from an outcrop close to the Passa Cinco River, Rio Claro municipality, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Dark mudstones with dispersed pyrite crystals usually characterize this member; however, a Cretaceous basic magmatic intrusion in the outcrop area locally altered the dark mudstones into sturdy pinkish mudstones. The low diversity fossil assemblage comprises palaeonisciformes and coelacanthiformes fish remains, very small bivalve mollusks (only in a thin bed), palynomorphs including rare acritarchs, in addition to the malacostraceans. It is assumed that the Taquaral Member represents distal conditions of a shallow epicontinental sea, very restricted, with variable salinity, low energy and anoxic bottom. The crustaceans of the paleontological collections of IGCE-UNESP (Rio Claro) and FFCL-USP (Ribeirão Preto), as well as the new collected fossils were analyzed under optical and SEM microscopes are preserved as compressed moulds with surface coated by iron oxide. The fossils show three biostratinomic signatures: 10 almost entirely articulated skeletal elements; 2. partially articulated elements; and 30 isolated parts. After almost one century since the discovery of the syncarid Clarkecaris brasilicus (Clarke, 1920), this revision confirms that the first thoracic somite is fused to the cephalon, which implies that this species must be replaced into Anaspidacea. It was believed that this abundant Malacostraca was the only crustacean species of the Taquaral Member, but recent studies revealed that some fossils belong to another Malacostraca taxon, referred provisionally as "morphotype 1", with soft parts preserved, as portions of the digestive tract and muscular tissue. Four pairs of quelate thoracopods and a telson with a high-developed ... (Complete abstract electronic access below)
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Souza, Márgia Carvalho de. "Litofácies, geoquímica inorgânica e quimioestratigrafia das rochas carbonáticas do membro assistência da formação Irati-Permiano da Bacia do Paraná." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/27984.
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Sherwin, Jason. "A computational approach to achieve situational awareness from limited observations of a complex system." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33955.
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At the start of the 21st century, the topic of complexity remains a formidable challenge in engineering, science and other aspects of our world. It seems that when disaster strikes it is because some complex and unforeseen interaction causes the unfortunate outcome. Why did the financial system of the world meltdown in 2008-2009? Why are global temperatures on the rise? These questions and other ones like them are difficult to answer because they pertain to contexts that require lengthy descriptions. In other words, these contexts are complex.
But we as human beings are able to observe and recognize this thing we call 'complexity'. Furthermore, we recognize that there are certain elements of a context that form a system of complex interactions - i.e., a complex system. Many researchers have even noted similarities between seemingly disparate complex systems. Do sub-atomic systems bear resemblance to weather patterns? Or do human-based economic systems bear resemblance to macroscopic flows? Where do we draw the line in their resemblance? These are the kinds of questions that are asked in complex systems research.
And the ability to recognize complexity is not only limited to analytic research. Rather, there are many known examples of humans who, not only observe and recognize but also, operate complex systems. How do they do it? Is there something superhuman about these people or is there something common to human anatomy that makes it possible to fly a plane? - Or to drive a bus? Or to operate a nuclear power plant? Or to play Chopin's etudes on the piano? In each of these examples, a human being operates a complex system of machinery, whether it is a plane, a bus, a nuclear power plant or a piano. What is the common thread running through these abilities?
The study of situational awareness (SA) examines how people do these types of remarkable feats. It is not a bottom-up science though because it relies on finding general principles running through a host of varied human activities. Nevertheless, since it is not constrained by computational details, the study of situational awareness provides a unique opportunity to approach complex tasks of operation from an analytical perspective. In other words, with SA, we get to see how humans observe, recognize and react to complex systems on which they exert some control.
Reconciling this perspective on complexity with complex systems research, it might be possible to further our understanding of complex phenomena if we can probe the anatomical mechanisms by which we, as humans, do it naturally. At this unique intersection of two disciplines, a hybrid approach is needed. So in this work, we propose just such an approach.
In particular, this research proposes a computational approach to the situational awareness (SA) of complex systems. Here we propose to implement certain aspects of situational awareness via a biologically-inspired machine-learning technique called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). In doing so, we will use either simulated or actual data to create and to test computational implementations of situational awareness. This will be tested in two example contexts, one being more complex than the other. The ultimate goal of this research is to demonstrate a possible approach to analyzing and understanding complex systems. By using HTM and carefully developing techniques to analyze the SA formed from data, it is believed that this goal can be obtained.
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Trafton, John. "Genre memory in the twenty-first century American war film : how post-9/11 American war cinema reinvents genre codes and notions of national identity." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3583.
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In this thesis, I argue that twenty-first century American war films are constructed in dialogue with the past, repurposing earlier forms of war representation by evoking the visual and narrative memory of the past that is embedded in genre form—what Mikhail Bakhtin calls 'genre memory.' Comparing post-9/11 war films with Vietnam War films, my project examines how contemporary war films envision war's impact on culture and social space, explore how war refashions ideas about race and national identity, and re-imagine war's rewriting of the human psyche. My research expands on earlier research and departs from traditional approaches to the war film genre by locating the American Civil War at the origin of this genre memory, and, in doing so, argues that nineteenth century documentation of the Civil War serves as a rehearsal for the twentieth and twenty-first century war film. Constructed in explicit relation to the Vietnam film, I argue that post-9/11 war films rehearse the history of war representation in American culture while also emphasizing the radically different culture of the present day. Rather than representing a departure from past forms of war representation, as has been argued by many theorists, I show that contemporary American war films can be seen as the latest chapter in a long history of reimagining American military and cultural history in pictorial and narrative form.
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Crews, Anthony Michael. "“The Art of Ruling the Minds of Men”: George H. W. Bush and the Justifications for Intervention in the Gulf War." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1289594839.
Full textBooks on the topic "Iraqi memory"
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Pannewick, Friederike, Leslie Tramontini, and Stephan Milich. Conflicting narratives: War, trauma and memory in Iraqi culture. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2012.
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Ḥilmī, Rafīq. Memoirs: Iraq & Kurdistan (1908-1923) : Iraqi Kurdistan and the revolutions of Sheikh Mahmud. London: NewHope Publications, 2007.
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Hamoudi, Haider Ala. Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American memoir. New York: Beaufort Books, 2008.
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Hamoudi, Haider Ala. Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American memoir. New York: Beaufort Books, 2008.
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Red flags: Memoir of an Iraqi conscript trapped between enemy lines in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., 2009.
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Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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L, Doyle M., ed. I'm still standing: Memoirs of a woman soldier held captive in Iraq. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
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Horesh, Joshua. An Iraqi Jew in the Mossad: Memoir of an Israeli intelligence officer. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Company, 1997.
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Zilkha, Ezra K. From Baghdad to boardrooms: My family's odyssey : a memoir. [New York?]: E.K. Zilkha, 1999.
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Gehrmann, Richard. "A Soldier’s Perspective on Serving in Iraq and Afghanistan." In Trauma and Public Memory, 193–206. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137406804_15.
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Al-Ali, Nadje. "Memory, history, and contestations in present-day Iraq." In Beyond Women's Words, 137–48. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351123822-13.
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Mouritzen, Hans. "‘Remember Iraq!’ Learning Theory and the 2013 Non-decision on Air Strikes Against Syria." In Historical Memory and Foreign Policy, 11–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15194-1_2.
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Gehrmann, Richard. "Enemies of the State(S): Cultural Memory, Cinema, and the Iraq War." In Memory and the Wars on Terror, 69–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56976-5_4.
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Roushdy-Hammady, Iman. "Sheer and Opaque Screens: The Medical Ethnography of Arabic Television, a Phenomenological Quandary of Communal Memory, Suffering, and Resistance." In Leading to the 2003 Iraq War, 165–80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403977311_11.
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Hisari, Lorika, Kristen Barrett-Casey, and Kalliopi Fouseki. "The Role of Heritage in Post-War Reconciliation: Going Beyond World Heritage Sites." In 50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation, 187–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05660-4_15.
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AbstractIt is widely acknowledged that reconciliation and sustainable development are processes that necessitate involvement from local, national and international actors. However, with the attention of international actors overwhelmingly focused on World Heritage sites, this chapter seeks to examine the potential consequences of the disparity in treatment between those sites on the World Heritage List and those that are not but are still significant for their local communities. Kosovo and Iraq are the two cases we use to explore the role, use and treatment of heritage in post-war recovery and reconciliation and how this is affected by World Heritage status. Through an examination of heritage as a political process, we can approach a more in-depth understanding of how heritage shapes and reshapes the politics of post-war memory, inter-community relations, and the extent to which the international community uses World Heritage in these communities to mandate their own politics of remembrance. We argue that heritage can have a “pacifying” role and contribute to peacebuilding, but this will need active, transformative actions from UNESCO which go beyond the Convention and, if possible, beyond politically influenced decision-making. This chapter seeks to fill a gap in the literature of how the local, national and international interact in the post-war environment, as well as the true impact of potential inequalities created by World Heritage.
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Yuhl, Stephanie E. "Militarized US Women from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Citizenship, Homelessness, and the Construction of Public Memory in a Time of War 1." In Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories, 159–78. 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2016. | Series: The feminist imagination – Europe and beyond: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315584225-11.
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Nasser, Tahia Abdel. "Dreaming of Solitude: Haifa Zangana and Alia Mamdouh." In Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420228.003.0006.
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This chapter concentrates on new areas of exploration of testimony and memory in unconventional forms such as the prison diary by focusing on the narration of torture in Dreaming of Baghdad (1990) by Iraqi writer Haifa Zangana and the prevalence of fear in The Foreigner (2013) by Iraqi novelist Alia Mamdouh. Dreaming of Baghdad, written in London during the 1980s, revisits Zangana’s experience of imprisonment in 1970s Iraq in complex ways. While Dreaming of Baghdad offers new forms for the exploration of the subjectivity of Iraqi revolutionary women by exploring the precariousness of memory and challenging taboos on testimony, The Foreigner explores the subjectivity and trajectory of Iraqis in the diaspora, focusing on the effects of violence and the infringement of taboos.
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Amar, Zohar, and Ephraim Nissan. "Captive Gazelles in Iraqi Jewry in Modern Times in Relation to Cultural Practices and Vernacular Housing." In Sites of Jewish Memory, 234–50. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315796796-12.
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"Introduction: Narrative, Memory, and Identity." In Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora, 1–20. University of Toronto Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781487517311-002.
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M. Ali Jabara, Kawthar. "The forced displacement of Jews in Iraq and the manifestations of return In the movie "Venice of the East"." In Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdicpgp/1.
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The character of the Jew was absent from Iraqi cinematic works, while it was present in many Arab cinematic works produced in other Arab countries, and the manner of presenting these characters and the goals behind choosing that method differed. While this character was absent from the Iraqi cinematic narration, it was present in the Iraqi novelist narration, especially after the year 2003. Its presence in the Iraqi narration was diverse, due to the specificity of the Iraqi Jewish character and its attachment to the idea of being an Iraqi citizen, and the exclusion and forced displacement that Jews were subjected to in the modern history of Iraq. This absence in the cinematic texts is a continuation of this enforced absence. The Jewish character was never present in the Iraqi cinematic narration, as far as we know, except in one short fictional movie, which is the subject of this research. The research dealt with the movie “Venice of the East 2018” by screenwriter Mustafa Sattar Al-Rikabi and director Bahaa Al-Kazemi. We chose this movie for several reasons, some technical and some non-technical. One of the non-technical reasons is that feature cinematic texts rarely dealt with Jewish characters. The movie is the only Iraqi feature movie, according to our knowledge, produced after 2003, dealt with these characters, and assumed that one of them would return to Iraq. Therefore, our choice was while we were thinking of a research sample dealing with the personality of the Iraqi Jew and what is related to him and how it was expressed graphically. As for the technical reasons, it is due to the quality of the cinematic language level that the director employed to express what he wants in this movie, whose only hero is the character of the unnamed Jewish man played by the Iraqi actor (Sami Kaftan). As well as, many of the signs contained in the visual text that provide indications that may be conscious or unconscious of the situation of this segment of Iraqis, and this will become clear in the course of the research. 4 The research is divided into a number of subjects, including historical theory and applied cinema. The historical subjects included a set of points, namely (the Jews who they are and where they live) and (their presence in Iraq). The research then passed on the existence of (the Jewish character in the Iraqi narrative narrative), and how the Iraqi novelist dealt with the Jew in his novels after 2003, and does the Iraqi narration distinguish between the Jew and the Israeli or the Zionist. The applied part of the research followed, and included a (critical view of the movie) and then passed on the cinematic narration of events in the last subject (the narration of the cinematography). We studied the cinematic narration from three perspectives (cinematic shots, camera movement, camera angle and point of view), the research concluded with a set of results from criticism and analysis. It is worth mentioning that this research is an integral part of a previous unpublished study entitled (Ethnographic movie as artistic memory), which is an ethnographic study of the personality of the Jew in the Iraqi short movie.
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خزعل جبر, لؤي. "Social Psychological Dynamics of the Saddamist and ISIS genocides in Iraq." In Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdicpgp/11.
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Genocide is an attempt to wipe out an entire group of human beings, either directly by killing them, or indirectly by creating conditions favorable to their death, for disciplinary purposes aimed at punishing, blaming and retaliating against the victim, routine institutionalization in the context of war, utilitarianism aimed at achieving a specific gain, A monopoly aimed at identifying the dominant in power, and an ideology aimed at creating an optimal society and erasing all that is impure. The scientific study of genocide in a calm cognitive way is a humanitarian and historical necessity, because the horrific and tragic outcomes of this phenomenon threaten the depth of human existence and human values. It is a complex phenomenon that can be approached from multiple sides, philosophical, political, sociological, economic, historical and psychological, each of these approaches has a great value in understanding the phenomenon, but the psychological and social dimensions are at the core of these approaches. In a previous study by the researcher on the Iraqi historical memory (Ghabr, 2014), the strength of the presence of the genocides - Saddamism and terrorism - was found among the most important events in contemporary Iraqi history in the Iraqi historical memory, and it fell within the first factor (suffering) in the content of that memory, the factor that Intertwined with a complex web of relationships with political cultures and social movements. Therefore, the current study will work on clarifying the psychosocial dynamics of genocide through a comprehensive review of the specialized literature, and employing those insights in understanding the genocide in the Iraqi context, as the Iraqi context witnessed multiple and horrific genocide campaigns, in the time of totalitarianism and Daaeshism, and such an approach constitutes an existential necessity in Iraq.
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عبد الرزاق أيوب, ضياء. "Kurdish-Arab coexistence in Iraqi contemporary poetry." In Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdicpgp/56.
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" One of the best manifestations of the ego is in its relation to the other as an identifiable equivalent. This relation is basically and culturally determined by the nature of the observant ego, both dialectically and dialogically. The other serves as an inspiring stimulus that produces a desirable effect on an expressive ego which is aiming at self-expression and actively shaped by that equivalent other. This article investigates the poetic ego in its constant, variable interaction with the Kurds as reflected in the poems of contemporary Iraqi poets who showed sympathy with and support to the Kurdish cause. Exemplary poems will be chosen to depict this reciprocal relationship, shedding light on its unified representation. The article is divided into an introduction and five sections. The concept of the other and its origin, diversity of meanings, and its interdisciplinary suggestiveness are all discussed in the introduction. The five sections, on the other hand, are a study of the various depictions of the Kurds in contemporary Iraqi poetry. These depictions are shown in the Kurdish brotherhood, the commemoration of famous Kurdish figures, the celebration of the Kurdish place and festivities and their role in identity formation, and remembering its setbacks and inculcating it in the collective memory"
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إبراهيم أحمد العزّي, يونس. "Halabja in Poetic Memory: The Crime and the Case." In Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdicpgp/55.
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"Abstract The Halabja case, and the genocide to which the people of this city were subjected, represented an international crime with all the dimensions and connotations of the word, and thus left a wound in the memory of the human conscience, the effects of which were reflected in various forms politically, socially, and culturally. The Halabja crime constituted intellectual and literary foundations for many Iraqi and Arab poets and writers, and it became an artistic theme for many poems and literary works in the contemporary creative achievement. Among these writers was the Iraqi poet (Ahmed al-Hamd al-Mandalawi), whose poem (Execution of a City in My Country) is regarded as an artistic painting that recorded the details of this tragedy, and depicted its bloody events, in a high literary style, and a language far from complex, embodied the poetry of sadness and the memory of pain. This is what makes it a rich sample in technical and objective terms, and worthy of research and study. The stylistic approach was adopted as a method of reading and a mechanism for analysis, to reveal the aesthetics of this poem, and the mechanisms of its artistic formation, according to a critical and analytical vision, highlighting the poetics of the text and the poeticity of the creator on the one hand, the depth of tragedy and the connotations of sadness and sorrow On the other hand, the text. The study methodology necessitated dividing the research into an introduction and three sections. The introduction formed a methodological threshold - including (Halabja - the poem - and the poet), which collectively represents the external / theoretical framework of the research. As for the research sections, it was devoted to the study of the three levels of the poem - according to the mechanisms of the stylistic approach - which are respectively: the structural level, the phonemic level, and the semantic level, which the poet was able through his employment of the elements of formation and artistic construction to highlight these stylistic levels and their poetics that tempt the researcher to approach the text and critically debate it what reveals its aesthetic beauty secrets."
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Dal Cengio Leonardi, Alessandra, Cynthia Bir, Dave Ritzel, and Pamela VandeVord. "The Effects of Apertures on Internal Pressure Measured During Shock Wave Exposure." In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2011-53586.
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Blast-induced neurotrauma with no overt damage to the skull has been identified as a condition suffered by military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan (Glasser 2007). Symptoms of mild blast neurotrauma include alterations in cognitive functions (memory, language, problem-solving-skills) and in emotional behavior (mood swings, depression, anxiety, emotional outbursts) (Okie 2005). Despite the improvements in helmets and body armors, many veterans returning from the war front are being diagnosed with mild blast-neurotrauma (Warden 2006). Little is known of the means by which brain injury results from exposure to blast where there is no evident physical damage to the head. This study looks at possible mechanisms of brain injury related to blast by examining how pressure transmission occurs within a skull/brain surrogate system. Investigations were carried out to resolve the variables affecting skull dynamics and their effect on pressure imparted to the brain. Testing assessed internal pressure profiles as a function of ambient overpressure, orientation of the sample to shock-front exposure, and the presence of apertures.
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Azeez, Kamaran, Marwan Abdelbary, and Abid Ur Rehman. "Benefits of Hydraulic Jet Pump for Unloading a Well Over Conventional Nitrogen Lift Method." In ADIPEC. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/211790-ms.
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Abstract Removing fluid from a wellbore column, allowing a well to flow initially, or bringing a previous well back online, nitrogen lifting is commonly used in north Iraq wells. Due to the inability of coiled tubing units to be delivered on time and their high cost, operators are forced to seek for an alternative method of unloading drilling fluid. A hydraulic Jet Pump is a technology used to complete the task. A newly drilled well DB-H was chosen, and the drilling fluid volume calculated was 12,000 bbl. to pump to the surface and begin production, assuming nonstop operation between unloading and producing. The deployment of the hydraulic lift Jet Pump for both stages was planned. Well data from the operator was collected, the process design was initiated, and Jet Evaluation Modeling Software (JEMS) was used to run the design models. A Proper pump size was set up based on available data to meet operator expectations. A Reverse Circulating Jet Pump (RCJP) was chosen to be installed inside a Sliding Sleeve Door (SSD) at a depth of 2,450 ft using a slickline. injecting power fluid with a discharge pressure of 1,500 psi and a flow rate of 1.11 bbl per minute through the casing-tubing annulus and getting the return from 3.5-in tubing. Cleanup process, and production achieved in one run time. Within the first three days of operation, the well had produced double than expected. The operating parameters of the surface unit were adjusted and well tested. Data acquisitions consisted of collecting samples to read the properties of oil and fluids. After ten days of continuous well offloading and producing, the operator decided to pull out the downhole memory gauge to collect real data and see how the well performance behavior changed with the jet pump operating. New data was gathered, and the jet pump operation was resumed. Operating parameters were tuned to achieve the production target (at 1,700 psi injection pressure and 1,690 BPD injection rate), and the net return was 1,300 BPD with 0.4 percent BSW. This paper explains in detail the operation that saved the operator money and time by using an artificial lift to produce hydrocarbon from a specific well, which saved USD 300,000 at an early stage of cleanup and unloading the well. Increased production by 100 percent, generating $USD 3.5 million in monthly revenue in the production stage with the minimal cost of lifting.