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Al-Urwa (Iraqi magazine)

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Al-Urwa (Arabic: العروة, The Bond) was an Arabic magazine published in Iraq in the 1950s and financed by the US government during the cultural Cold War. The magazine intended to call on Arabs and Muslims to unite against communism, emphasizing the goodness of America and the Western world.[1]

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  1. ^ Muehlenbeck, Philip (2012). Religion and the Cold War : a global perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-1852-1. OCLC 821708130.