Hay's mission was to establish civil administration as the British took control of Iraq from Ottoman authorities.

Rubin reviews Mike Tucker's Hell is Over, Voices of the Kurds after Saddam.

What will happen at this latest Iraqi Kurdistan turning point?

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

Rubin reviews Scott Taylor's Among the Others: Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq.

Reviews of an analysis of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)and of a collection of articles published by Kurdish experts.

Transparency matters. Regardless of the mansion's ownership, if President Barzani is sincere about combating corruption, he should require that every official serving in his government detail their property holdings and business interests, not only in Iraqi Kurdistan, but also abroad.

A review of Kevin McKiernan's The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland.