Basrayatha keyword-work Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers advance an innovative scheme for rejuvenating the democratic state

December 1989

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From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs

Basrayatha keyword-work Joshua Cohen and Joel RogersBasrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a citys inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real city of Basra and the imagined city he created through stories, experiences, and folklore. By turns a memoir, a travelog, a love letter, and a meditation, Basrayatha