Iraq: from Sumer to Saddam

1. After the 1991 Gulf War.

2. The ancient crucible.

3. The Arabs, Islam and the Caliphate: Arab origins, Mohammad, the framework of Islam, the Arab conquest, schism, the Umayyad Dynasty, The Abbasid Dynasty, decline.

4. The Seljuks, Mongols and Ottomans: End of the Abbasids, the Seljuks, impact of the Crusades, Mongol onslaught, Ottoman conquest, Ottoman decline.

5. The Western impact.

6. From monarchy to republic.

7. Into the era of Saddam.

8. War with the west.