International audienceCradle of humanity, Iraqi territories found an aura, very short, only a century, under the Abbasid caliphate. After the succession of power in decline and various foreign domination, they return to the story of colonialism under the lights of the nineteenth century who is interested in geography and in their basement. Borders, decided from outside to lead to independence in 1932, are sources of internal and external conflicts. The dictatorship of Saddam Hussein has left patterns of violence that hardly makes easy to find the balance between many centrifugal forces.Berceau de l'humanité, les territoires irakiens ne retrouvent une aura, bien courte, seulement un siècle, que sous le califat abbasside. Après la succession ...