Iran and Iraq

by Philip Wolny

Iran and Iraq, though neighbors for many centuries, share both a common and a contentious history. Though both are Muslim nations, they have long been divided by their differing affiliations with the Shia and Sunni branches of Islam and by a cultural tension between Persian and Arab. These tensions have occasionally erupted into all-out warfare, most recently in the 1980s, when half a million Iraqis and Iranians were killed in a decade-long war. Today,...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143585280X
• ISBN13: 9781435852808
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12