The Crisis over Iraq: Websites

Sponsored by the MECA Program, Hofstra University

Last Update: November 4, 2005

 

[Note: This site has a variety of links for further information on the ongoing crisis in Iraq.
If you have suggestions for sites to include here, please contact the webshaykh.]

 
Latest News on Iraq (Non-American sites)
 
• Al Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com/)
• BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/default.stm
 
• The Big Project: Iraq http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/iraq/
• The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/0,7722,,00.html
 
• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count http://icasualties.org/oif/
• Iraq Daily http://www.iraqdaily.com/
 
• News: Iraq http://www.al-bab.com/arab/news/iraq.htm
• OneWorld.net: Full Coverage: Iraq http://www.oneworld.net/article/country/368/

Government of Iraq

• The Coalition Provisional Authoroity http://www.cpa-iraq.org/government/governing_council.html
• Iraq [Official government website in Arabic] http://www.iraqigovernment.org/
• Iraq Index http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/iz__indx.html [Contains constitution of interim government.]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For the War 
 
 
• The Constitutional Monarchy Movement http://www.iraqcmm.org/
 
 
 
• Iraq: Opposition to Saddam Hussein http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/iraq/opposition.htm
• Radio Free Iraq http://www.rferl.org/featuresarchive/country/iraq.html
• "To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq" http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:H.J.RES.114:
• United States Central Command (U.S. govt. site) http://www.centcom.mil/
• United States Department of Defense http://www.defenselink.mil/
• United States Department of State http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c3212.htm
• United States Embassy in Baghdad http://iraq.usembassy.gov/

Against the War

• Alternative Resources on the U.S.- Iraq Conflict http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/iraq.html
• Electronic Iraq http://electronicIraq.net/news/
• End the War http://www.endthewar.org/default-new.htm
• Iraq Action Coalition http://iraqaction.org/
• Iraq Body Count http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
• Iraq Resource Guide (American Friends Service Committee) http://www.afsc.org/iraq/guide/Default.shtm
• Iraq Veterans Against the War http://www.ivaw.net/
• Historians Against the War http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/
• Peace Action http://www.peace-action.org/
• The Nation http://www.thenation.com/directory/view.mhtml?t=040307
• Teaching about the War http://www.rethinkingschools.org/war/
• Win Without War http://www.winwithoutwarus.org
• ZNET Iraq Watch http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Iraq/IraqCrisis.cfm

Commentary

• Baghdad Burning http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
• Christopher Allbritton http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
• Dahr Jamail http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/
[Baghdad correspondent for The NewStandard.]
• Iraqi Voices http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/issue.jsp?debateId=73&id=2
• Juan Cole "Informed Comment" http://www.juancole.com/
• Robert Fisk http://www.robert-fisk.com/
• Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East http://www.ahjur.org/tabsir/
• The September 11 Tragedy and Beyond http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/daniel_m_varisco/wtc.htm
• Where is Raed? http://dear_raed.blogspot.com

Background on Iraq 

• CIA World Fact Book: Iraq http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html
• FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT IRAQ [Dilip Hiro] http://www.nationbooks.org/chapter.mhtml?t=hiro
 • Iraq Emergency (UNHRC) http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/iraq
• Iraq Maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iraq.html
• Iraq Resource Center (Council on Foreign Relations) http://cfr.org/reg_index.php?id=6|35||1
• Iraq Web Links (U.S. Institute of Peace) http://www.usip.org/library/regions/iraq.html
• Muslims, Islam, and Iraq http://www.uga.edu/islam/iraq.html

 
History of Iraq and Mesopotamia
 
• Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/wiet.html
• The Baghdad Museum Project http://www.baghdadmuseum.org
 
• The 2003 Iraq War & Archaeology http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html
 
 
 
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.html
• The Iraq Crisis Archives https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/iraqcrisis/
 
• Iraq - The cradle of civilization at risk http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~museum/iraq.html
• Iraqi Cultural Heritage (U.S. State Dept.) http://exchanges.state.gov/culprop/iraq.html
• Mesopotamia (The British Museum) http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/
• Mesopotamia http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/ABOUT.HTM
• Resources on Iraqi Museum Collections http://icom.museum/iraq.html
 

Images of Iraq

 
 
• Christopher Allbriton http://homepage.mac.com/callbritton/Menu21.html
• Karim Ben Khelifa http://www.karimbenkhelifa.com/flash/flash.html
• Pictures of Destruction and Civilian Victims of the Anglo-American Aggression in Iraq http://www.robert-fisk.com/
[Click under "Pictures."]
• Visions of Iraq http://www.oberlin.edu/art/Iraq/Iraq.html
 
Video Games and Political Cartoons
• Protest Songs http://www.peace-not-war.org/
• Don't Loot in Iraq http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Dont-Loot
• Funny Saddam Hussein Pictures http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blsaddampictures.htm
• President Black Bush http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=President-Black-Bush
• Saddam's Frisky Business http://www.madblast.com/funpages/view.cfm?id=11950
• War Against Terror [pinball-like game] http://www.war-against-terror.info/
• War on Terror http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/osama.html