Showing posts with label Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revolution. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

1957

Baghdad, 1957:
one year before the July 14 Revolution that ultimately changed the fate of the Iraqi nation-state.

A Google search offers little more than Frank Lloyd Wright's queer orientalist vision of Baghdad:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw_iraq.html

Here we have the very pristine perception and plans of a legendary American visionary for the future of Iraq's capital city at this pivotal moment. Disappointingly, Iraqis' own perceptions and plans for Iraq in this moment are not widely published on the web (in English).

Offer your insights: Wh
at was Baghdad like in 1957?