The director of the UNESCO Chair, Assistant Professor Dr. Alaa Shatnan, commented on the release of this book, stating, “The publication of this study comes as part of the UNESCO Chair’s efforts to disseminate academic and specialized research in civil society. The publication of specialized books in these topics is one of the tasks that the UNESCO Chair for Dialogue at the University seeks to achieve. The series of intellectual studies issued by our UNESCO Chair works on printing and publishing academic studies on various topics in the fields of literature, humanities, and social sciences.”

A member of the editorial board of the book series published by the university, Mr. Hassan Zuheir, stated, “The new book published by our university’s series of intellectual studies is authored by Dr. Mohammed Attwan, an academic and Iraqi writer specialized in contemporary political thought. His book is divided into five chapters, comprising 188 pages, where he studied the transformations of power in what he calls the ‘Iraqi city,’ referring to the state with all its legal and institutional frameworks. His study was conducted through examining the social, spatial, political, and ethnic structures in Iraq, emphasizing that the Iraqi city should be able to manage diversity and plurality rather than being limited to criteria of physical capacity and Intensity.”

In the introduction to his book, researcher Dr. Mohammed Attwan explained that his study aims to trace the levels of transformation in the structure of the modern Iraqi political mindset, in its social, cultural, and spatial manifestations, through covering a sample of reformist dyads that ensured the re-description of this local mindset.

Translated by Sarra‘a Mohammed