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This article studies the British modalities of managing Kurdish nationalism in the vilayet of Mosul in the 1918-1926 periods. During this time both Kurdish nationalism and Iraqi state-building were in their formative period. There are two inter-dependent arguments: First, the new British policies of the post-WWI period were also in their formative period. Second, Kurdish nationalism in the province evolved in the prism of the British policies, constituting both a trump card for and a challenge to the Kurdish population. This duality became the main characteristic of Kurdish nationalism in the future configurations in Iraq in particular, and in the Middle East, in general.