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The new British Mandate of Mesopotamia would rise in revolt in 1920, hoping to throw off their new British rulers.
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Sources:
The 1920 Revolt in Iraq Reconsidered: The Role of Tribes in National Politics by Amal Vinogradov
'A Tedious and Perilous Controversy': Britain and the Settlement of the Mosul Dispute, 1918-1926 by Peter J. Beck
British Oil Policy in the Middle East 1919-1932 by Colin Davies
The British Press and the Future of Egypt, 1919-1922 by Michael B. Bishku
The Cambridge History of EgyptCreating Nations, Establishing States: Ethno-Religious Heterogeneity and the British Creation of Iraq in 1919-23 by Guiditta Fontana
Did Britain Use Chemical Weapons in Mandatory Iraq? by R.M. Douglas
Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914 - 1921 by Ian Rutledge
Competing Narratives: Histories of the Women's Movement in Iraq, 1910-58 by Noga Efrati
Labor Unrest in Egypt, 1906-90 by Donald Quataert
British Oil Policy in the Middle East 1919-1932 by Colin Davies
Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy
The Other 'Awakening' in Iraq: The Women's Movement in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Noga Efrat
iLiminal Loyalties: Ottomanism and Palestinian Responses to the Turkish War of Independence, 1919-22 by Awad Halabi
Patterns of the 1920 rising in Iraq: The Rifā'iyya ṭarīqa and Shiism by Thomas Eich
Peasants in Revolt - Egypt 1919 by Ellis Goldberg
Southern Kurdistan under Britain's Mesopotamian Mandate: From Separation to Incorporation, 1920-23 by Saad Eskander
The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: New Directions in the Egyptian Economy by Robert L. Tignor
War and Occupation in Iraq: What Went Right? What Could Go Wrong? by Judith S. Yaphe
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