Arab nationalist pioneers in Mosul

This article explores the roots of the Arab Nationalist movement in Mosul at the beginning of twentieth century from the perspective of indigenous sources of change. It surveys the work of several Mosuli intellectuals using numerous primary sources including published and unpublished biographical material, chronicles, memories, old newspapers and documents. The article points to how the sense of localism and Ottomanism among the elite was transformed to one of Arab and then Iraqi nationalism.