Lawi, Gurji 205–6
Lawrence, T.E. 89, 95, 96
Layla 120–1
Le Corbusier 250
League of Nations 107, 229
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) 338–42, 349
Lebanon 121
Lemnos 67
Lloyd George, David 90
Lodge, Henry Cabot 272
London 139, 141, 176–8, 248–9, 285–8, 293–4, 296–7, 300–2, 306–7, 341, 352–4, 360–1, 367, 375, 388
Lysses School (Hampshire) 303
Madam Adel’s school (Baghdad) 276–7
Mahdawi, Colonel 278, 307, 308, 312
Mahmud (brother of Khalil the doorman) 341–2
Majali, Abdul Hay 367
Mallowan, Max 217 ‘Manifesto of the association Against Imperialism’ 222
March, Walter 184
Mardin 377
Marseilles 138, 141, 176
Marsh people 237
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 334
Maude, Sir Frederick 64–7, 129, 186, 274
Maysaloun, Battle of (1920) 106
Mecca 7, 96, 222, 243
Menderes, Adnan 255, 256–7
Mesopotamia xxix–xxxi, 10, 13–14, 16, 67, 78, 89, 96, 190, 377
Midhat Pasha 11
Milan 238
Millfield College (Somerset) 303
Moore, Henry 252
Mosul 78, 113, 121, 144, 160, 183, 204, 213, 235–6, 268, 309, 373
Mudros 67
Mughaysil cemetery (Kazimiya) 151–2
Muhammad, Abu 279–80
Muhammad (refugee) 283–4
Murad IV, Sultan xxx
Murad, Salima 169
Murjan, Abdul Wahab 257, 290, 307
Muruwa, Kamil 331–2
Nabil 205–6
Nafisa, Queen 211, 268
Najaf 92, 93, 99, 102, 109, 141, 157, 182, 199, 231, 257, 293, 306, 321, 332, 351, 360, 361, 364, 381, 385
Najafi, Mahin 131
Nasser, Jamal Abdul 245–6, 252–3, 254, 257, 289, 315, 316, 323, 328, 329, 331–2
Nassiriya 63, 234, 378–9
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) 255, 256
Nawab, Agha Muhammad 7, 16–19, 26
Nawab, Burhan Chalabi 18–19, 60, 151
Nawab, Munira Chalabi
visited by her brother 7, 18–19
culinary skills 18, 99, 100–1, 103
complains about the statue of the deer 19
moves out of the Deer Palace 26
and choosing a wife for her nephew 35, 36–7, 41–3
relationship with Bibi 62
and visit of King Faisal 99–101, 103–4
sells Deer Palace to Abdul Hussein 112
monthly visit to the Deer Palace 149–51
visits Bibi in her new house 244
Ni’mati
found and given a home by Hadi 15, 16, 18, 19
accompanies Hadi on his political errands 26, 27
prepares a horse for Bibi 53
and café gossip 79–80
accompanies Bibi to her mother’s house 101
moves to the Deer Palace 112
accompanies Hadi on his business travels 119
and blindness of Hassan 123
looks after the Chalabi children 131
death of his wife Fahima 148
and the Eid festival 163, 165
disapproves of Bibi abandoning the abayas 192
and use of Arabic language 205
criticizes Jabr 231–2
worried over son’s safety 234
visits Rushdi in prison 276, 291
greets Hadi on his return to Baghdad 320–1
death of 332
Ni’mati, Muhammad 134–5, 234
Numah, Lilu 81
Numah, Rosa 81
Nur al-Din Beg 28, 29
Orosdi Back (department store) 201
Osseiran, Adel 336, 337, 339
Ottomans xxx–xxxi, 3, 7, 8, 10–11, 24–6, 32, 33, 63–7, 89, 96, 106
Oudh Bequest 16
Palestine 67, 89, 178, 206, 229, 230, 232–3
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) 338
Paris 141, 176, 228, 238–41
Pasha, Nuri Fattah 159
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) 371, 376
Persia, Persians 3
Persian Gulf Treaty (1975) 335
Petra Bank 366–9
Philby, St John 98
Picasso, Pablo 252
Pitcher (maid) 326
Ponti, Gio 250
Postforoush family 36
Qassim, Abdul Karim 267, 273, 274–5, 278, 287, 298, 305, 309–10, 320, 321, 322
Qassim, Hamed 249–50, 291–2, 294, 298, 299, 311, 312, 320, 322
Qassim, Umm Adnan 298–300
Qazzaz, Said 312–13
Qian 82
Qishla 30
Qotob family 36–7
Rangoon 12
Rashid Camp 204
Rashid, Haroun 251
Rashidiye Law School 120
Republican Guards 323
Revolutionary Council 278
Rishan (maid) 326
Royal Berkshire Regiment 106
Royal Dutch Shell 235
Rusafi, Ma’ruf 33–4
Saadoun (friend of Hadi’s) 308
Sabra and Shatila refugee camp 342
Sadr City 279–80
Saeeda (nanny)
soothes the young Bibi 40, 60–1
finds scarce produce in the markets 41
loyalty and temperament of 51, 81, 124
and marriage of Bibi 54
superstitious beliefs 61, 155
informs Bibi of Hadi’s café visits 81
leaves Rumia’s service and joins Bibi 85
looks after Rushdi 101
moves to Deer Palace 112
failed marriage 124–5, 234
uncomfortable with modern ways 194–5
and death of Rumia 220
devoted to Ahmad 232, 241, 267, 292–3
important role of 232, 233–4
dislike of violence and chaos 234
escapes from military coup 267
death of 306
Sahla Mosque (Kufa) 93
St Leonard’s Forest School (Sussex) 303
Salahuddin 371, 373, 376
Salim, Jawad 252
Salman, Abdul Razzaq Ali 269
Samachi, Fattuma 224
Samarra 64
Samawa 63
Samerai, Saleh 335
San Remo 91
Sattar (steward) 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 27
Sawt-al-Arab (radio station) 252–3, 266, 305, 329
Sayyid Nassir (Bibi’s grandfather) 44
Seaford College (Sussex) 302, 303–6
Seale, Colonel 377, 379
Second World War 173, 180, 182–4, 195, 202–10, 220
Shakir, Zaid 367
Sharif Hussein, Emir of Mecca 87, 89, 91, 96
Sha’shou, Munashi 206
Sheikh Abdul Qadir Mosque 108
Sheikh Jamil farm 266–7, 270–3
Sheikh Sandal mosque (Baghdad) 91–2
Shibibi, Hussein Muhammad 234
Shirazi, Grand Ayatollah 93, 109
Shosa 134–5
Shubbar, Kadhim 334
Shubeilat, Laith 368
Siddiq, Yehuda 234
Sidqi, Bakr 160
Sif Palace 179–80, 196–7, 241
Sitt Zeinab shrine (Damascus) 359–60
Somerville, Mr 140
Soug al-Saray (Baghdad market) 75–6
Soug Hanoun market (Baghdad) 206
Soug Istrabadi 79
Spanish Civil War 166
Stark, Freya 209–11
Subaiti, Muhammad Hadi 347–8
Subaiti, Umm Hassan 347–8
Suez Crisis (1956) 257, 306
Suleymania 376
Suwaidi family 91
Suwaidi, Tawfiq 290, 323
Sykes, Sir Mark 65
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Sykes–Picot agreement (1916) 91, 95
Syria 89
Talabani, Jalal 319, 368, 376
Talib (member of Revolutionary Council) 278
Tarzi, Salim 248, 285
Ta’sisiyah school 276–7
Tehran 275
Tikrit 333, 345
Tokatelian, Madame 201
Tudeh Communist Party (Iran) 221
Turkey 255–7
Turkish Sixth Army (Ottoman 6th Army) 24, 28
Ugaili family 321
Ummayyad dynasty 105
United Arab Union 274
United Nations 229, 257, 272, 274
University of Chicago 335
Ur 379
Urumia 375
Versailles Treaty (1919) 89–90
Vienna 138, 371
Voice of America 329
Wahhabism 349
Wathbah (great uprising) 230–2
Waugh, Evelyn 217
Weir (Andrew) & Co. 142, 144, 198, 218, 247–9, 285, 357
Wilhelm, Kaiser 23
Wilson, A.T. 88
Wilson, President 87, 88
Wright, Frank Lloyd 189–90, 250
Young Turks 10, 65
Yunis, Thabet 267
Yussif, Sultana 167
Yusuf, Yusuf Salman, ‘Fahd’ 234
Zagros mountains xxx, 373
Zilkha, Salman 206
Zionism 232–3
About the Author
Tamara Chalabi has a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Her first book, The Shi’is of Jabal’Amil and the New Lebanon: 1918–1943 was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2006. She has written for the Sunday Times, New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Slate and Prospect on war, culture, encounters, and identities. She lives in London and Beirut.
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