Word: saddamized
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...After the United States overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, Feldman had just the qualifications that would make him come in handy. It didn’t hurt that he believed that Islam and democracy are compatible...
...humor. The title “Elvis is Titanic” refers to one of the many East-meets-West exchanges that dot the book: Elvis and the movie Titanic are both well known in Iraq—select items of American culture that were readily available in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The memory of the former dictator is everywhere; as Klaus pushes his students to question globalization and its effects on culture, the overwhelming consensus is that being too open to the West is better than the isolating control endured under Saddam...
...which Klaus engages. Kurdistan has been supportive of the American “liberation” to a greater degree than other parts of Iraq, but it is also indelibly marked with the history of a U.S. betrayal. In 1991, the United States encouraged a Kurdish uprising against Saddam, only to back off their support, leaving room for the former dictator to commit unprecedented atrocities in the region...
...team of economists was headquartered in Saddam Hussein’s Republican Palace, and Foote often found himself wandering bewildered through its garish, gilded rooms. The light fixtures were painted gold, he said; the crystal chandeliers, at a closer look, were plastic...
...most frightening moment came when he and two of his colleagues had to decide where to set the exchange rate between the Swiss dinar, used in the north of the country, and the Saddam dinar in the south...