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Resources

• Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center - Provides numerous resources to celebrate the history of Jewish communities who lived in Iraq, including photos, films, music, and artifacts. The center also produces a YouTube channel with over 60 interviews with Jewish families from Iraq (in Hebrew).
• British Library - Endangered Archives Program - collection of digitized historical documents from around the world
• Countries and their Cultures - Iraq An overview of the demographics, social life, religious practices, politics, gender roles, and other aspects of Iraqi life.

• Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) - database of historical records searchable by country, many of them religious documents from Christian communities in the Middle East

Publications

Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Social life and customs		Cohen, Andrew C. Death rituals, ideology, and the development of early mesopotamian kingship: toward a new understanding of Iraq's Royal Cemetery of Ur. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2005	Iraq
Social life and customs		Harris, George L. its people, its society, its culture. New Haven, Connecticut: HRAF Press, 1958	Iraq
Social life and customs		Lovejoy, Bahija. The land and people of Iraq. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott, 1964	Iraq
Social life and customs		Ahsan, Muhammad Manasir. SOCIAL LIFE UNDER THE ABBASIDS. University of London Thesis, 1973	Iraq
Social life and customs		Emadi, Hafizullah. Culture and Customs of Afghanistan. Greenwood Press, 2005	Iraq
Social life and customs		Sayce, A. H. Babylonians and Assyrians: life and customs. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018	Iraq
Social life and customs		Budge, Sir E. A. Wallis. Babylonian life and history. London: Religious Tract Society, 1925	Iraq
People, society, culture		Harris, George L.; Ani, Moukhater; Bigelow, Mildred C.; Cookson, John; Gillen, Sheila C. Iraq: its people, its society, its culture. New Haven: HRAF Press, 1958	Iraq
Social life and customs		Iraq. Wizārat al-Thaqāfah wa-al-Funūn. La culture et les arts en Irak: célébration du Xème anniversaire de la révolution du 17-30 juillet 1968. Bagdad: Ministère de la culture et des arts, 1978	Iraq
Social life and customs		Contenau, G.; Maxwell-Hysop, K. R. & A. R . Everyday life in Babylon and Assyria. London, E. Arnold, 1954	Iraq
Social life and customs		Dabrowska, Karen; Hann, Geoff. Iraq: then & now: a guide to the country and its people. Chalfont St. Peter: Bradt Travel Guides, 2008	Iraq
Social life and customs		Sayce, A. H. Social life among the Assyrians and Babylonians. London: Religious Tract Society, 1893	Iraq
Social life and customs		Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Guests of the sheik. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1969	Iraq
Social life and customs		Irwin, Ruth Hoffman; Hoffman, Helen. Our Arabian nights. London: R. Hale, 1941	Iraq
Social life and customs		Young, Gavin. Return to the Marshes: life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. London: Futura Publications, 1978	Iraq
Public, political, and intellectual life	Mid-1900s	Durūbī, Ibrāhīm. al- Baghdādīyūn, akhbāruhum wa-majālisuhum. Baghdad: Publisher not identified, 1958.	Baghdad
Social Life and customs	1000s	Fahd, Badrī Muḥammad.al-ʻ Āmmah bi-Baghdād fī al-qarn al-khāmis al-Hijrī. Baghdād:Maṭbaʻat al-Irshād, 1967.	Baghdad