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In April 1969, Mosul provided the setting for festivities of an unusual nature. On April 10, in the presence of Commander-in-Chief and RCC member General Hammad Shihab, and under the auspices of President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, the city’s ‘First Spring Festival’ was inaugurated.
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© 1991 Amatzia Baram
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Baram, A. (1991). Mosul’s Spring Festivals: Mesopotamian Rites. In: Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba‘thist Iraq, 1968–89. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21243-9_5
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