Making Money
Andrew Cockburn: The Chalabis, 1 December 2011
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family
by Tamara Chalabi.
Harper, 352 pp., £12.99, July 2011,978 0 06 124039 3 Show More
by Tamara Chalabi.
Harper, 352 pp., £12.99, July 2011,
From Dictatorship to Democracy: An Insider’s Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam
by Hamid al-Bayati.
Pennsylvania, 347 pp., £23, February 2011,978 0 8122 4288 1 Show More
by Hamid al-Bayati.
Pennsylvania, 347 pp., £23, February 2011,
“... rapidly once he entered into close partnership with the British shippers and grain dealers Andrew Weir & Co. Another son, Muhammad Ali, prospered as the chief executive of the government-owned Rafidain bank. The Chalabis were now comfortably established at the top of Baghdadi commerce and society. The city was undergoing a renaissance after centuries ... ”