Indigenous Black Iraqis: Shaping Blackness in the Arab World From the Cushites to the Zanjs

Indigenous Black Iraqis: Shaping Blackness in the Arab World. From the Cushites to the ZanjsBefore the 2008 election of Barack Obama, the Western world was still unaware of the existence of a Black population in Iraq. Though almost two millions, one third of them living in the southern part of the country in Basra, they rarely drew the attention of Arab scholars. Like many countries of the Middle East which have an important Black community among them, the presence of these populations is o...