The new British Mandate of Mesopotamia would rise in revolt in 1920, hoping to throw off their new British rulers.

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Sources:

The 1920 Revolt in Iraq Reconsidered: The Role of Tribes in National Politics by Amal Vinogradov

'A Tedious and Perilous Controversy': Britain and the Settlement of the Mosul Dispute, 1918-1926 by Peter J. Beck

British Oil Policy in the Middle East 1919-1932 by Colin Davies

The British Press and the Future of Egypt, 1919-1922 by Michael B. Bishku

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Did Britain Use Chemical Weapons in Mandatory Iraq? by R.M. Douglas

Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914 - 1921 by Ian Rutledge

Competing Narratives: Histories of the Women's Movement in Iraq, 1910-58 by Noga Efrati

Labor Unrest in Egypt, 1906-90 by Donald Quataert

British Oil Policy in the Middle East 1919-1932 by Colin Davies

Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy

The Other 'Awakening' in Iraq: The Women's Movement in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Noga Efrat

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Patterns of the 1920 rising in Iraq: The Rifā'iyya ṭarīqa and Shiism by Thomas Eich

Peasants in Revolt - Egypt 1919 by Ellis Goldberg

Southern Kurdistan under Britain's Mesopotamian Mandate: From Separation to Incorporation, 1920-23 by Saad Eskander

The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: New Directions in the Egyptian Economy by Robert L. Tignor

War and Occupation in Iraq: What Went Right? What Could Go Wrong? by Judith S. Yaphe

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