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بغداد بالأسود والأبيض - صور نادره
Baghdad in black and white - rare photos

كنيسة القدّيسة ترازيا للاتين الكاثوليك - شيّدها المهندس الفرنسي باتريك بيرت عام 1928 في منطقة السنك - بغداد
St. Teresa Church for Latin "Roman" Catholic - built by the French Architect Patrick Burt in 1928 in Al-Senak - Baghdad

موكب إحتفال مسيحي عام 1920 - بغداد
Christian Celebration Procession 1920 - Baghdad 

Chalghi Baghdadi band in 1932 - The Iraqi Maqam 
the posterior line from right to left:
1- Ismail Iyada Al-Qaisy 2- Rashid El-Qundarchi 3- Shaikh Jalal Al-Hanafi 
the anterior line from right to left:
4- Salih Thmail 5- Yousif Batto 6- Khadhouri Tamma 7- Yahouda Shammas

عرض أزياء عام 1956 - بغداد
Fashion Show in 1956 - Baghdad 

مكتب شركة الإنتاج السينمائي الأمريكيّة الشهيرة ميترو غولدوين ماير في بغداد - شارع الرشيد عام 1940
Metro goldwyn mayer office in Baghdad's Al-rashid street in 1940

سينما بغداد الصيفي و النخيل 

صورة لسينما مفتوحة أو صيفيّة في بغداد في عشرينيّات القرن الماضي. وقد كانت المسارح المفتوحة شائعة جدّا في الشرق الأوسط قبل إدخال أجهزة التكيّيف. فغالبا ما تتجاوز درجة حرارة الصيف الرطب في بلاد ما بين النهرين ال120 درجة فهرنهايتيّة. وتشير المعلومات عن بغداد عام 1952 إلى عدد من المسارح الصيفيّة أو المفتوحة: الفردوس، القاهرة في شارع الرشيد، الرافدين، باب الشيخ، الشرق، في شارع الملك غازي والتاج في الباب الشرقي

Baghdad Outdoors Cinema and Palm trees

Photo of an open-air,or an outdoor movie theater in Baghdad, ca. 1920's. Outdoor theaters were very popular in the Middle East prior to the introduction of air-conditioning. The humid Summer heat in Mesopotamia often exceeded 120°F.The 1952 directory of Baghdad, lists the following Open Air,or Outdoor theaters:al-Firdaws, al-Kahira, Rashid St., al-Rafaidin, Bab al-Shaikh, al-Sharq, King Ghazi St., al-Taj, Bab al-Sharqi.

سينما الزوراء، شارع الرشيد، بغداد - 1944

لقطة لسينما الزوراء الشهيرة. والتي قدّمت أفلاما للمواطنين البريطانيّين، حيث كانت إحدى أوائل دور السينما في العراق. ومن بين الأفلام التي عرضت فيها فلم الجاسوسيّة "المخابرات البريطانيّة" للممثّل بوريس كارلوف

Zawraa Cinema, El Rashid Street, Baghdad, 1944

Snapshot of the "famous" Zawraa Cinema . Showing films for British citizens, It was one of Iraq's earliest movie houses. Among the films being shown is British Intelligence with Boris Karloff.

Photo from the collection of Theatre Talks LLC

فندق قصر دجلة - شارع الرشيد - خمسينيّات القرن الماضي
Tigris Palace Hotel - Al-Rasheed Street - 1950s 

شارع الرشيد أو خليل باشا جادّه سي - 1913
Al Rasheed Street "Khalil Pasha Caddesi" - 1913 

ساحة باب المعظّم - 1918
Bab Al-Mu'adhem sq. - 1918 

شارع الرشيد - بيت لنش - 1920 شركة بواخر إنكليزيّة
Al-Rasheed street, Beit Lynch - 1920 - A British navigation company 

جسر مود - 1930
Maude Bridge - 1930 

جسر الكطعة "الشهداء حاليّا" - جامع الآصفيّة يظهر في الصورة - 1930
Al-Gat'a Bridge (Al Shuheda "The Martyrs" Now) . Al-Asafia Mosque is seen - 1930

شارع الرشيد - محلّة باب الأغا - 1937
Al-Rasheed Street, Bab Al-Agha district - 1937 

قلعة تركيّة قديمة 
تاريخ الصورة 1932

مكتبة الكونغرس ، قسم المطبوعات والصور الفوتوغرافيّة، ماتسون (جي إريك و إديث) مجموعة فوتوغرافيّة

The old Turkish Qualla'a. Citadel 
Date Created/Published: [1932] 

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection

منظر للسراي الحكومي في بغداد عام 1918
Baghdad Serai view in 1918

مبنى سفارة الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة القديم في خمسينيّات القرن الماضي - ساحة الفتح - بغداد
Old US Embassy in 1950s - AlFateh Square - Baghdad 

تمثال الجنرال ستانلي مود على صهوة الحصان - بغداد

تاريخ الصورة : 1932 

مكتبة الكونغرس ، قسم المطبوعات والصور الفوتوغرافيّة، ماتسون (جي إريك و إديث) مجموعة فوتوغرافيّة

Statue of General Stanly Maude on horse - Baghdad 

Date Created/Published: 1932

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection

تخت ريوان - وسيلة نقل قديمة
Tekhet Rewan - old mode of transportation 

الكاري - باص قديم
The Gari - Old Bus 

عربة قرب القصر الأبيض - بغداد 1930
A Carriage Near the White Palace - Baghdad in 1930 

نقليّات نيرن من بغداد إلى دمشق في خمسينيّات القرن الماضي
Nairn Transportation from Baghdad to Damascus in 1950s. 

مركب خليفة في بغداد عام 1918
Khalifa boat in Baghdad 1918

محمّد علي جواد - ضابط في القوّة الجويّة العراقيّة - 1930
Mohammed Ali Jawad - Iraqi Air Force Pilot - 1930 

الباب الوسطاني أو الباب القديم - الشيخ عمر - 1912
Bab Al Qadeem or Al-Wastania Bab "The old or middle Gate of Baghdad" - Sheikh Omer - 1912 

طوب أبو خزّامة في ساحة الميدان - 1918
Tob "An Old Canon" Abu Khizzamah in Midan Sq. - 1918

الشاعر معروف الرصافي في مدرسة التفيّض - 1928
Poet Ma'aroof Al-Rasafi in Al-Tifayidh School - 1928 

تشييع الشاعر جميل صدقي الزهاوي. الشبيبي والرصافي يظهران في المقعد الخلفي - 1936
Burying of the Poet Jameel Sidqi Al-Zahawi. Al-Shabeebi & Al-Rasafi seen in the back seat - 1936

جسر الشهداء "الملكة عالية سابقا" تحت الإنشاء - 1939
Al-Shuheda'a Bridge under construction - 1939 

البرلمان العراقي "مجلس الأمّة" في أربعينيّات القرن الماضي
Iraqi Parliament in 1940s 

قراءة فرمان ناظم باشا - والي بغداد العثماني - 1910
Reading Nadhum Pasha Faraman - The Ottoman Ruler of Baghdad - 1910 



حفلة تنكريّة يظهر رئيس الوزراء العراقي نوري السعيد وزوجته نعيمة واقفين في يسار الصورة. وإبنهما صباح وغازي الداغستاني بالزي الداغستاني جالسين
A fancy dress party where Iraqi Prime Miniter Noori Saeed, his wife Naima standing to the left of Photo. Their son Sabah and Ghazi Al Daghistani in Daghistani costume seated.

باب السيف - الكرخ - 1917
Bab Al-Seef - Al-Karkh - 1917 

عكد الصخر - شارع المأمون الآن - 1924
Agd Al-Sekher, Al-Ma'moon street now - 1924



قبر ومقبرة شيخ عمر
Shaikh Omer tomb and cemetery

I totally understand his reasoning , but the funny thing is that they are trying to make him the bad guy. as if they would of not gone to war if he did not provide  that intelligence (or here the lack of it)

Source: The Independent

A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html

in an Arabic Interview with her she said that she get her Husband approval for everything becauseshe beleive she is less than him. Added to that she said that she visited some christian neighborhood  because she heard that the suicide rate in that area was high as if Muslim women in Iraq are living in luxury. I wonder what she was smoking during that interview,  maybe what her husband was smoking since have been doing all the thinking for her. 

Source: Niqas.com

New guidelines on how the Iraqi government’s female employees should dress have caused a furore. The conservative Ministry of Women’s affairs says it is protecting female dignity while women’s rights advocates say it’s an attack on personal freedoms.

http://www.niqash.org/articles/?id=2981

I can not add anything more to her beautiful words

Source NPR:

"I think the spirit of Baghdad will never change, no matter what. The Baghdad and Iraqi people will endure, but visually, I think the city's just completely destroyed. It used to be a beautiful city, and I'm searching really hard to find its beauty." Aseel Albanna

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145397206/after-20-years-an-iraqi-returns-to-a-changed-land

Some nice  news to read about Iraq 

Source: BBC

A project to catalogue every plant species in Iraq has been restarted, 25 years after it was put on hold because of the political situation in the country.

Experts from Iraq are once again working with botanists at Kew Gardens in London to finish the reference work Flora of Iraq, the first volume of which was published in 1966.

There are estimated to be around 3,500 plant species in the country but many are not comprehensively documented.

The project aims to complete the final three of nine planned volumes. The most recent was published in 1985.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16317974

An image worth a thousand word , or in iraq case tells a thousand story  

Source: NYTimes:

Nearly nine years of war in Iraq have produced a growing cadre of world-class, homegrown Iraqi news photographers. Some started out with little technical knowledge but a strong desire to document their country’s experience. Within months, they were producing work that became increasingly crucial to the world’s understanding of Iraq. These are the stories of five of those photojournalists, with a sampling of their images.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/19/world/middleeast/20111219-iraqi-photographers.html

From NYTimes:

That was at the heart of the question that Andrea Bruce, a photographer, posed to the Iraqis she encountered as the war wound down. She and her local colleagues in The Times’s Baghdad bureau wondered, was there reason for optimism?

The answer — like so much in recent years — was complicated.

“There is a belief that Iraqis will be able to deal with and survive no matter what comes their way,” said Ms. Bruce, who has been photographing in Iraq for eight years. “Optimism about what lies ahead doesn’t exist. They’re pretty pessimistic. Politically, they’re worried.”

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/portraits-of-iraqi-pride/?src=tp

10 Iraqi fils (just few years old) which is about 0.000008554270373768155 US$ is being sold for 2500US$  as memorabilia!!

I am waiting for the "smarty" who will buy it 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Iraqi-Coin-Saddam-Hussein-Basra-Collection-/230717484923?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b7d56f7b#ht_500wt_1202

I dont even know what to say, but it seems to me that most solders are kids who assume war is more like a video game, they would shoot and then keep asking why those people are shooting at us. on the other hands Iraqis seems to expect American solders to fix everything for them. At the end of the day, many live lost for a decision made by 2 so called leaders who did not really respect these lives.

The Irony is that many of these stories are lost in a junkyard.

From NYTimes:

he documents ultimately led to a report that concluded that the Marine Corps’s chain of command engaged in “willful negligence” in failing to investigate the episode and that Marine commanders were far too willing to tolerate civilian casualties. That report, however, did not include the transcripts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/united-states-marines-haditha-interviews-found-in-iraq-junkyard.html