Descrizione
A liminal space and crossroads of different peoples and cultures, the land of the two rivers has always had diversity as one of its main constitutive features. Starting from the early twentieth century, this fundamental complexity has translated into a series of projects for the articulation of power that are often openly divergent from the system that prevailed in 1921. Although with different forms, intensities and methods, these “alternative visions of Iraq” have continued to exercise a profound influence in the following decades, not only in the north with a Kurdish majority, but also in the central-southern provinces. Today, with the liberation of Mosul from the grip of the self-styled “Islamic State”, they have returned to play a leading role and to profoundly influence the balance of a country that, once again, appears to be balanced between promises of rebirth and risks of dissolution.
