Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Transliteration ix
5. Introduction. Khuzestan, a Borderland: Writing a Connected History 1
6. 1 Leveraging Loyalty in the Borderland 23
7. 2 Luring and Repelling Iranians: Abd al-Karim Qasim, 1958–1963 47
8. 3 An Ambiguous Borderland Milieu: The Impact of the Arif Years, 1963–1968 69
9. 4 Arab Iranians and Arabized Iranians The Baath Party, 1968–1975 91
10. 5 Nationality and Loyalty: The Baath and Iraqis of Iranian Descent 119
11. 6 A National Narrative of Revolution: Subsuming the Local, 1978–1979 137
12. 7 Khorramshahr and Abadan, May–July 1979 157
13. 8 The Iran–Iraq War A Denouement 193
14. Conclusion 211
15. Notes 219
16. Index 251