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Iraq


 
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1Improving content on the history of photography in this country and how you can help
Introduction
2Introduction to photography in Iraq
Archaeology
3Gabriel Tranchard: The excavations of Victor Place at Khorsabad, Iraq (1850s)
Missionary work in Armenia and Mesopotamia
4Raphael: Album de la Mission de Mésopotamie et d'Arménie confiée aux Frères Mineurs Capucins de la Province de Lyon (1904)
Travel
5A. Kerim: Camera Studies in Iraq (ca. 1925)
Conflict
6Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988): Introduction
7Gulf War (1990-1991): Introduction
8Gulf War (1990-1991): Sabotaging the oil wells of Kuwait (1991)
9Gulf War (1990-1991): The Highway of Death (26-27 February 1991)
10Susan Meiselas: Kurdistan
11Thoughts on the Gulf War (1990-1991)

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