Journal Entry 1 by jonno from Besançon, Franche-Comté France on Monday, February 03, 2003

This edition, published in 1990, appeared under the name Samir al-Khalil. Since then the real author, an Iraki dissident named Kanan Makia, has come forward. The book is a scholarly and well-documented study of the Iraki Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein, a study that pre-dates the Kuweit crisis and Gulf War of 1990-91. It professes to be an examination of the meaning of the Baathist regime. It certainly succeeds.

Edited on October 29, 2010: The book is certainly dated, given the events of the last twenty years, but will still be of interest to students and historians of the Saddam period. 

Journal Entry 2 by jonno at Centre de Linguistique Appliquée - Cafétéria in Besançon, Franche-Comté France on Friday, October 29, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (10/29/2010 UTC) at Centre de Linguistique Appliquée - Cafétéria in Besançon, Franche-Comté France

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On the shelf of the OBCZ in the café on the fifth floor of the Centre de Linguistique Appliquée in Besançon, France.