A Tug of War for Iraq's Memory

Disagreement about the fate of Baath Party records has set 2 scholars on a collision course

This past November, the director of Iraq's National Library and Archive — a slim, intense, clean-shaven Iraqi Kurd named Saad Bashir Eskander — made a rare trip across the Atlantic.

In a two-week tour, Mr. Eskander shuttled from Boston to New York to Montréal, meeting with the directors of major libraries and delivering a lecture called "Rising From the

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