Iraq revisits its royal history
More than half a century after Iraq’s monarchy was toppled in a violent coup, Iraqis are coming to grips with a controversial part of their history that some consider the country's golden age. Tamara Dhagastani, a family friend of the Iraqi royal family, looks at part of her collection of thousands of photos of palace […]Jane Arraf reports for the Christian Science Monitor:
More than half a century after Iraq’s monarchy was toppled in a violent coup, Iraqis are coming to grips with a controversial part of their history that some consider the country's golden age.
Tamara Dhagastani, a family friend of the Iraqi royal family, looks at part of her collection of thousands of photos of palace life. Her collection formed the basis of Iraq's first exhibit of royal memorabilia since the 1958 revolution.
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July 14, when King Faisel II and members of his family were killed in 1958, is celebrated as a national holiday here. Bridges and roads are named after that date.
But there are calls by some politicians to revoke those celebrations. The Iraqi post office, responding to popular demand, has issued stamps commemorating Iraq’s King Faisel and his son and grandson who later took the throne.
