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Iraq
imad - May 25, 2021Community History Iraq’s rich history encompasses the territory of ancient Mesopotamia, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It is known as the “cradle of civilization” because people of the region developed some of the world’s earliest writing, literature, sciences, mathematics, laws, and philosophies. Over the centuries, the inhabitants were influenced by many civilizations and
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Seventy Years since the Departure of Iraqi Jews
imad - January 15, 2021The majority of Iraqi Jews were dislocated in the wake of the U.N. partition of Palestine, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Nakba. Between 1950—1951, about 120,000 Iraqi Jews ended up departing, largely for Israel, in a process called tasqit al-jinsiyya—the precondition of waiving of Iraqi citizenship required for exiting without the possibility of return. This exodus,
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Sarah Bahbah
imad - January 15, 2021Sarah Bahbah, the Palestinian, Australian-raised artist crystallises the universal but rarely captured experience of oversaturated, intense feelings and imperfect relationships. Her protagonists give voice to the vast spectrum of emotion, spanning the desire for inner peace, true love, fear of commitment, playful ambivalence towards life and the paradox of wanting intimacy but craving isolation. Known
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One little girl. One BIG hope.
imad - January 15, 2021Little Amal, a young refugee, embarks on a remarkable journey – an epic voyage that will take her across Turkey, across Europe. To find her mother. To get back to school. To start a new life. Will the world let her? Can she achieve what now seems more impossible than ever? Following the phenomenal international
Iraqi poet
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Poetry
Nazik al-Malaika
imad - January 15, 2021Nazik al-Malaika, one of Iraq’s most famous poets, died June 20, 2007, at the age of 83. Al-Malaika was best known for her role as a pioneer of the free verse movement, making a sharp departure from the classical rhyme form that had dominated Arabic poetry for centuries. Al-Malaika was an anomaly in her society,
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Zainab Salbi
imad - January 15, 2021Zainab Salbi is the EP and Host of Through Her Eyes at Yahoo News and the author of Freedom is an Inside Job.At the age of 23, Zainab founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to serving women survivors of wars by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from
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Samir Khurshid Painter
imad - January 14, 2021Samir Khurshid is an Iraqi painter living in Portland, Oregon. From humble beginnings sketching portraits in the marketplace of his Iraqi hometown, Samir has traveled a difficult road to arrive in Portland, Oregon. Once a portrait painter of Saddam Hussein, completing almost 400 portraits of the former dictator during his compulsory military service, Samir became
Food
People
My Baghdad Kitchen By JUMA
imad - January 14, 2021JUMA Kitchen was established in 2012. The head chef & founder, Philip Juma, offers a unique and talented approach which has changed the way people perceive and experience Iraqi cuisine. As an English-Irish-Iraqi, Philip has been influenced by both Middle Eastern and modern European cuisine throughout his upbringing and this is reflected throughout his style
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Zaha Hadid Architects
imad - January 14, 2021Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) Zaha Hadid’s pioneering vision redefined architecture for the 21st century and captured imaginations across the globe. Each of her projects transformed notions of what can be achieved in concrete, steel, and glass; combining her unwavering optimism for the future and belief in the power of invention with advanced design, material and construction