The Ba’ath Party ousted the Iraqi President and Prime Minister from office in July of 1968. Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein, the repressive Ba’ath regime oversaw a period of great economic prosperity due to foreign oil sales, but all the while engaged in human rights violations and genocide. Many families—like Mona’s—fled Iraq during this period, as the country they’d once known became dangerous and unrecognizable. The Ba’athist Iraqi regime was dismantled in 2001, following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Ba’ath Regime Quotes in What the Eyes Don’t See
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The road behind my family disappeared too. The Iraq they knew was lost, replaced by war and ruins. In my mind, this lost Iraq is a land of enchantment and despair. But its lessons endure.
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Ba’ath Regime Term Timeline in What the Eyes Don’t See
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Chapter 16: Shortwave Radio Crackling
...the 1960s, fundamentalism soon reared its head once again. After Dawood was imprisoned during the Ba’ath revolution , Jidu traveled to Yugoslavia to study at the University of Zagreb. On a trip...
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