Watts, Nicole, Republic of Dreams, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan, New York University Press, 2025
Republic of Dreams, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan by Nicole Watts is a fantastic book following a Kurdish family from Halabja in eastern Iraqi Kurdistan. It starts with the gas attack upon Halabja during the Iran-Iraq War and ends with the COVID pandemic. It tries to document how an average Kurdish family lived and dealt with the major events in modern Iraq.