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Voicemails from History
by Mujda Ameen
History is created using the evidence that people leave behind, sometimes in documents and photo albums, other times on scraps and footsteps here and there. Each episode will feature a voicemail, an extract from the book I’m reading: it could be a speech, an interpretation, a conversation. Join me, a graduate and teacher of history, as I share and review books covering a range of historical events, people and memories. I’ll be offering my commentary and perspective to create a conversation about the issues and values which affect us in the present.
Episodes
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The 1963 Iraqi Coup: Exploring tensions in Ba'thism
Today's voicemail is taken from page 176 of "Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq" by Johan Franzén In 1963, 'Aref and the Ba'thists instigated the Ramadan Revolution which toppled Karim Qasim from power, a mere 5 years after the first revolution. What followed after was a brief period in...
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Navigating the Kurdish-Iraqi Civil War: Barzani, Communists, Aghas & Qasim (1961-63)
Today's voicemail is taken from p.225 of Claire Hollingworth's article in 'World Today'. The Iraqi and Kurdish saga continues! I begin with a quick recap of last episode's story and we get right into Barzani's return to Iraq, how the Kurdish Democratic Party and Iraqi Communist Party continued to...
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The making of Iraq and the Kurdish Barzani rebellions: Hope & Discord 1920-1958
Today's voicemail is taken from page 1-2 of Quil Lawrence's book, Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' quest for state-hood is shaping Iraq. In this episode, I turn to look at the Kurdish situation in Iraq, beginning in 1920 with its establishment under a British mandate and the new monarchy. I begin...
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Iran: A splintered revolution, a tragic ending 'The Republic of Mahabad' 1946
Today's voicemail is taken from the poem "2+2=1" penned by Qazi Muhammad, 1946. During the wartime occupation of Iran, the Kurds of Iran led by the revolutionary figure of Qazi Muhammad, set up the Republic of Kurdistan, with its centre as Mahabad. For the Kurds, this was the first implemented...
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Iran: The Soviets, Reza Shah & Simko Agha (the Kurds)
Today's voicemail is taken from the Kurdish epic, Mem û Zîn, written in 1692 by the Kurdish intellectual, author and poet, Ahmed Khani. Persia was (and is) at the crossroads of Asia. From the 1850s, Persia became everything on the spectrum from a chessboard to a battlefield, fought mainly between...
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An unholy trinity of treaties: Sykes-Picot, Sèvres & Lausanne
Today's voicemail is taken from James Barr's book, A Line in the Sand, paraphrased from page 11-12. The consequences of WWI were far-reaching, and the Middle East was no exception. Between 1916 to 1923, three major treaties were signed which carved up this region. These treaties went on to define...
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Tracing a Kurdish identity through the years
Today's voicemail is taken from the following article on the YPJ Zeynab Serekaniye, written by Elizabeth Flock: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/20/turkey-airstrikes-kurds-syria-ypj-ceasefire/ Introducing Season 2! Hello and welcome back to Voicemails from History. In this season, I will be…
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Burma 1945-2018: money, legacies & the Rohingya (Part 2), with Thant Myint-U
Today's voicemail is taken from page 188, The Hidden History of Burma, A Crisis of Race and Capitalism, by Thant Myint-U. Timestamps (as I know this episode is longer than usual!) Intro & background: until 10:30 Burma's economy: 11:00 Aung San Suu Kyi: 23:58 Rohingya and the state of Arakan…
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Burma 849-1945: a crisis of history (Part 1), with Thant Myint-U
Today's voicemail is taken from the book, The Hidden History of Burma, A Crisis of Race and Capitalism, by Thant Myint-U. Burma/Myanmar has experienced a long period of instability, turmoil and civil war. It has cropped up in the news time and time again in relation to 2 main crises - the…
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A botched surgery: 1947 Partition of India, with Joya Chatterji
Today's voicemail is taken a snippet of a poem titled Learning Urdu from Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American poet. The partition of British India in 1947 brought about a scale of violence and bloodshed which followed the pattern of the traumatic years following 1945. In this episode, I break…
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European WWII refugees in Asia and Africa, with Tadeusz Piotrowski
Today's voicemails are taken from the book, the Polish Deportees of WWII, edited by Tadeusz Piotrowski. This book is a collection of diaries and memoirs of Polish deportees from 1939 to 1945. World War Two witnessed one of the largest population movements in modern history, with approximately…
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Crimean Tatars in the Soviet Union, with Greta Uehling
Today's voicemails are taken from Greta Uehling's book, Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tatars' Deportation and Return. In this episode, I talk about the history of the Crimean Tatars, a group considered to be Europe's oldest surviving Muslim community. On the 18th of May 1944, Joseph Stalin ordered…
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Putting Lviv into the Nuremberg narrative, with Philippe Sands
Today's voicemail is adapted from a debate on page 148 from Philippe Sands's book, East West Street. This brilliantly written book focuses on the personal narratives responsible for the development of the legal concepts 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity'. Sands explains how three men moving...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
History is created using the evidence that people leave behind, sometimes in documents and photo albums, other times on scraps and footsteps here and there. Each episode will feature a voicemail, an extract from the book I’m reading: it could be a speech, an interpretation, a conversation. Join me, a graduate and teacher of history, as I share and review books covering a range of historical events, people and memories. I’ll be offering my commentary and perspective to create a conversation about the issues and values which affect us in the present.
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Mujda Ameen
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