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Thanks, that looks like a great book. Even if the majority of its focus is on 2003-2009, it sounds like it is written in a forward thinking way.

Thanks to you, I also found this one in the related titles section, which was written one month before the fall of Mosul, and by an Iraqi!

http://smile.amazon.com/Struggle-Iraqs-Future-Incompetence-Sectarianism-ebook/dp/B00HWWRKSY

These two books are not on current affairs but give great insight into the political and social problems that Iraq is dealing with today. They take different but related perspectives and they're both Iraqi writers

Fanar Haddad Sectarianism In Iraq Antagonistic Visions of Unit
http://www.amazon.com/Sectarianism-Iraq-Antagonistic-Visions-Unity-ebook/dp/B00N2WMBLE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451520960&sr=8-1&keywords=fanar+haddad

Harith Qarawee Imagining The Nation Nationalism Sectarianism and Socio-political Conflict in Iraq http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Nation-Nationalism-Sectarianism-Socio-political/dp/1906801770/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451520991&sr=8-1&keywords=harith+qarawee

Also check out my blog Musings On Iraq for current affairs and interviews
http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.comd

Nibras Kazimi a longtime Iraqi insider is blogging again and has some great pieces at Talisman Gate
http://talisman-gate.com/

Reidar Visser barely keeps up his blog Iraq and Gulf Analysis anymore but there are plenty of old articles there with good insight
https://gulfanalysis.wordpress.com/

A great book on this topic is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Maqam-Book-Doorway-Scales-Modes/dp/965505053X

It was written by an Iraqi Jew who has promoted Maqam music in Israel and preserved Iraqi music.

This is one thing I could find on Amazon, but it's very expensive:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G7N2MYQ/?tag=mediamovie09-20

A flag that was only in existence for 4 years and over 50 years ago is going to be difficult to find.

I think the FGM rate indeed horrible. Luckily it has been largely solved( http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/08/iraqi-kurdistan-female-genital-mutilation-fgm) & (''The Stop FGM in Iraqi-Kurdistan Campaign will serve as a model for the Stop FGM in the Middle East Campaign that will begin in 2013. '' http://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/725-public-education.html). As you can see, the Kurdish solution has even been praised as a model for the other ethnicities in the region.

Now it will be used for FGM campaign for Arabs(Yemen:http://www.stopfgmmideast.org/countries/yemen/ , http://www.refworld.org/docid/46d5787ec.html). As you can see, FGM came from Arabs to Kurds. Historians have discribed the matter as a byproduct of Arab conquests where Yemen settlers came living in Northern Mesopotamia(http://www.amazon.com/Succession-Muhammad-Study-Early-Caliphate/dp/0521646960).

So as you can see, Arabs still do FGM in Yemen and other Arab countries.

But let's not derail the topic: why do so many Shia Arabs in Iraq hit themselves to death? It is a sin in islam to hurt yourself, why then do it?