List of Photographs
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Dedication
1. My upbringing
2. In public life: the literary forum
3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress
4. Faisal in Iraq
5. Democracy in Iraq
6. Oil concessions
7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash
8. On Iraqi politics
9. My first term as Prime Minister
10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Saʻdun
11. Nuri al-Saʻid enters the scene
12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran
13. At the League of Nations
14. The ill-fated coups begin
15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara
16. Events on the brink of war
17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue
18. Unrest in Iraq
19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes
20. The Arab League
21. My second term as Prime Minister
22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948
23. My third term as Prime Minister
24. The era of king Faisal II
25. The Baghdad Pact
26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal
27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement
28. The Arab Federation
29. Iraq and Kuwait
30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958
31. The view from exile
32. Conclusion.