Top Row
Demonstrations on March 8th 1959, celebrating International Women’s Day. In Iraq, every year this day was a public holiday. Among them my wife, Catherine and other foreign women married to Iraqi men.

Protest of foreign woman married to Iraqi men. After the 1958 revolution a military court was set up to try the members of the monarchist regime. It was headed by Brigadier Fadhil Abbas Al Mahdawi. In a previous session to this protest, the accused was castigated by Mahdawi for being married to a foreign woman. The next day, a group of foreign women came to protest and 2 of them got up and made speeches. Madhawi apologized and took them all to lunch.

Middle Row
Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kasim and I am on his left. It’s the first conference of the Union of Engineers in Baghdad City Hall in Bab Al Mu’adhem. About 400 engineers attended the conference and the prime minister invited us to eat with him. This was in May 1959

Demonstration in Baghdad in 1959

Bottom row
On the India Dam. This was used to regulate the distribution of water to the central region of Iraq. It is said that a large part of the materials used to build the dam came from the ruins of Babylon. But, I don’t know how true that is. I am sitting with my wife, Catherine and a few friends.

A general view of Kirkuk, the city I come from.

A bridge in Kirkuk. It was a new bridge, built in the 1950’s. It replaced and old Ottoman bridge. Unfortunately the planners didn’t save any of the old architecture.

KAMAN MAJID, in London since the 1960’s