Holo wikiwiki mai ʻo Saad Tahr Hussein iaʻu ma ke ala haiki a hiki i ke alanui Mutanabbi, kahi e paʻa ai ka pā pōhaku ma mua o ka panakō waena i ka poʻe hele wāwae. Ma kahi o hoʻokahi tausani Iraqis e ʻike pōkole - a ʻaʻole ʻike - i ka malu o kahi Brit i kona hāʻule ʻana i ke alaloa. A laila, ma ka huinahalike kahi o ke kiʻi o Marouf al-Rasafi kahiko, ka haku mele a me ka mōʻaukala-debunker ma lalo o ka noho aliʻi ʻana o ka colonial Pelekane, e nānā ana i ka lehulehu, huli mākou i ka hema i ke alanui o nā puke.
Hele nā kānaka a pau i ke alanui Mutanabbi, kona kiʻi hou o ka Abbasid poet a me ke aliʻi hoʻoleʻa kiʻekiʻe ma ka palena ʻo Tigris. Maanei ʻoe e ʻike ai i ka mea e hana nei i loko o ka noʻonoʻo o kahi Baghdadi i hoʻonaʻauao ʻia, e hele mau ana i kahi ala e hiki ai iā ʻoe ke pepehi i nā makahiki ʻelima i hala.
Aia nā lede chadored a me nā kaikamahine poʻo ʻole a me kahi ʻumiʻumi i ʻōlelo ʻia me kahi pāpale ʻeleʻele a me kahi kāʻei ʻōmaʻomaʻo nani i kau ʻia ma luna o kona mau poʻohiwi. Nui nā kiʻi o Ali lāua ʻo Hussein - ʻo Iraq, ma hope o nā mea āpau, he ʻāina Shia - a me nā kikokikona o ka jurisprudence hoʻomana a me nā Korans hou i hoʻopaʻa ʻia a, he hōʻailona o ka Iraq kahiko, he nui o nā puke mōʻaukala e pili ana i ka nationalism Arab. He mau lima ʻelua lākou a pau, waiho ʻia ma ka pahu pahu ma ke kahua.
I koʻu hiki ʻana mai i ʻaneʻi, ʻaʻohe kaikamahine poʻo ʻole, nā akua makamae. ʻO nā kāne waena, pili i nā puke moʻolelo. He ʻōpio ʻo Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, ka mea hilinaʻi o Nasser, ka doyen o ka poʻe nūpepa ʻAigupita (ma kaʻu ʻōlelo e ola nei, ʻoiai ʻo ia i hāʻawi mai iaʻu i kahi cigar i Kairo i hoʻokahi makahiki i hala aku nei), ʻakaʻaka mai ka uhi mua. Nui nā mea kūʻai puke he poʻe komunista.
Ua paʻi ʻia ʻo Edward Said (auwe, make loa) ma ka paʻi ʻōlelo ʻAlapia o kāna mau moʻolelo ma Palestinians. ʻO ka mea pōʻino, aia kēlā ʻano hoʻopunipuni kahiko ʻino, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, ma kahi papahele, he kiʻi o Hitler a - he mea kupanaha loa - ʻo Rommel ma ke alo. ʻO kekahi mau kope o Saddam's War, he kiʻi maikaʻi ʻole o ke kanaka nāna i hoʻopau i kona ʻāina i loko o ʻekolu mau hakakā nui, waiho ʻia ma ka honua. Ke kuhikuhi nei au i kēia iā Saad. "Pono ʻoe e ʻike e Robert, ʻo ia, ua inaina mākou iā ia a ua inaina ka poʻe o Samarra iā ia no kāna hana iā lākou a ʻo kona kūlanakauhale ʻo Tikrit aia ma ka ʻākau o Samarra. ʻO ka poʻe o Samarra e hoʻōho i ka inoa o Saddam - no ka mea ʻo ia wale nō ka lāhui kanaka aupuni i koe iā lākou."
Hōʻea mākou i ke kihi kahi e kū mau nei ka pā o ka Ottoman kulshah kahiko (ma ke ʻano he "cabinet"), nā pōhaku palupalu i hoʻomāinoino ʻia e ka lālani o nā kaʻa ʻōpala hao ʻino, kahi noho o ke keʻena aliʻi hope hoʻi, o ke aupuni i hoʻonohonoho ʻia. na Winston Churchill. Ma kēlā ʻaoʻao o ke alahele, hoʻopōmaikaʻi ʻia i loko o ka lepo wela, ʻo ia ka puka lāʻau ʻūlū o ka hale kūʻai puke o Dr Mohamed Abu Amjad. ʻO nā puke Ashteroot, ka lāʻau lapaʻau, ka ʻepekema, ka palapala Pelekane, ka ʻōlelo, nā kamepiula, ka mōʻaukala a me nā ʻoihana, ʻōlelo ʻia ma luna o ka puka. ʻO Mohamed, ka mea kūʻai puke ʻaʻole i pani ʻole i nā makahiki o ka pōʻeleʻele, e ʻimi ana i kāna mau papa. Kūʻai koke au i kahi paʻi mua loa o ka moʻolelo biography a General Muhammed Naguib, ke kanaka nāna i hoʻokahuli i ka Mōʻī Farouk o ʻAigupita a ua hoʻopunipuni ʻia e Nasser. Noho au ma luna o ka puʻu puke a kaʻahele i kona mau ʻaoʻao.
A ʻike au i kāna wehewehe ʻana i nā pūʻali koa Pelekania e hele ana ma nā alanui o Kairo i ka wā o ke Kaua Honua ʻElua. "Ua hele ko lakou poe koa ma na alanui o Kairo me ke mele ana i na mele ino e pili ana i ko kakou alii, he kanaka i mahalo nui ia, aka nae, ua like ia me ko kakou hae. ua hoinoia mai e na koa Beritania imua o ke akea, no ka mea, ua ike makou, e like me ko lakou ike, ma ka hoino ana i ko kakou alii poino, ua hoino lakou i ko Aigupita poe holookoa." A ʻoiaʻiʻo, hoʻomanaʻo wau i ka mea a Saad i haʻi mai iaʻu e pili ana i ka poʻe o Samarra a me Saddam.
Hoʻopi au i kahi kope mae o Zaki Saleh's Mesopotamia 1600-1914 - i paʻi ʻia ma Baghdad ma mua o 55 mau makahiki i hala. Ua hoʻouna ʻo Queen Elizabeth I i ka Pelekane mua i Baghdad a me Basra, a aia nā ʻaoʻao o ka mōʻaukala ʻoki poʻo e like me nā sultans o Baghdad, i hoʻowahāwahā ʻia a i hoʻomana ʻia e nā kanikela Pelekane, e hālāwai me ko lākou mau hopena paʻa. A aia kekahi mokuna hoihoi e pili ana i ka pilina ma waena o British romanticism a me ka manaʻo kālā i Iraq, pehea nā inoa o Babulona a me ka Tigris (Dijle ma ka ʻōlelo Arabic) i hāʻawi i kahi ʻano mahalo i ka loaʻa ʻana o ke Komohana.
Inā hōʻike ʻia nā monumen kahiko he ʻāina waiwai kēia, he kikowaena o nā lāhui, no ke aha e hiki ʻole ai ke lilo hou i ʻāina waiwai ma lalo o ka lima alakaʻi o Pelekane? ʻElua mau Brits, ʻo Shepstone lāua ʻo Lee ma ka inoa, i paʻi i kahi monograph ma Toronto i ka makahiki 1915 ma lalo o ke poʻo inoa "Future of Mesopotamia, pehea e hoʻihoʻi ʻia ai nā ʻāina Baibala i ko lākou kūlana nui ma muli o ke kaua honua". ʻAʻole anei ʻo ia ka mea a kā mākou poʻe kupua waiwai i haʻi mai iā mākou ma 2003, pehea e hiki ai i ke Komohana ke hoʻihoʻi i ka nui o Iraq?
Hoʻopili mākou i kahi kope o Washington Irving's 1849 Life of Mahomet and Ilya Ehrenburg's The Fall of Paris, kahi moʻolelo poina 1942 o ka hana ponoʻī o Farani e heluhelu ʻē aʻe e like me Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française. A laila holo wikiwiki mākou a kokoke i ka Tigris, ʻike ʻo Saad i kahi hoʻolaha alanui no ka mea mele Gypsy ʻo Sajida Obeid a hoʻomaka ʻo ia e uwē i kekahi o kāna mau mele hoʻopunipuni. "Hoʻopau ka poʻe i inu i hoʻokahi ʻano pia". Hīmeni lākou i ka male ʻana. "Hoʻokahi wale nō pia a ʻaʻole lawa kou kāne," wehewehe ʻo Saad. He ʻakaʻaka kāu e aʻo ai ma ke ala hoʻi mai ke alanui o nā puke.
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