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  • Women Rights Minister in Iraq do not believe in gender equality, My guess that was a job requirement

    • 26 Jan 2012
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    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. 

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    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.

     

    The guidelines had already been decided on late last year but when a local newspaper published details of exactly how the Iraqi government’s female employees should be dressing, controversy was bound to ensue.

     

    The recommendations made by the Higher National Committee for the Advancement of Iraqi Women*, which is chaired by the federal Minister for Women’s Affairs, Ibtihal al-Zaidi, had been decided upon in September 2011. However details were only revealed by the Baghdad daily, Al Mada, a few days ago.

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

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  • After 20 Years, An Iraqi Returns To A Changed Land

    • 19 Jan 2012
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    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

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  • Iraq Kew flora project revived after 25 years on hold

    • 13 Jan 2012
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    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

     

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  • Iraqi school kids after 15 minutes of the attacks today

    • 22 Dec 2011
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  • War in pictures (Not suitable for the weak heart)

    • 21 Dec 2011
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    An image worth a thousand word , or in iraq case tells a thousand story  

    Source: NYTimes:

    Their War at Home

    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

     

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  • Portraits of Iraqis

    • 15 Dec 2011
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    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

     

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  • currency exchange rate for dummies

    • 15 Dec 2011
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    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

     

     

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  • Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq

    • 15 Dec 2011
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    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.

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    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 

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  • Striking Unusual Tones, Beethoven in Iraq

    • 27 Sep 2011
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    few Iraqi musicians are doing an amazing job and participating in Berlin festival, Amazing and talented kids 

    http://mediacenter.dw-world.de/english/video/#!/269451/Striking_Unusual_Tones_Beethoven_in_Iraq/Program=7885 

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  • Raped by al Qaeda , The story of many women who were living in the areas controlled by al Qaeda

    • 13 Sep 2011
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    This creates new problem with moms who can not register their kids because sometimes they are not married, a problem that Iraqi useless politicians should act to fix it. 

    Source CNN: 

    CNN's Arwa Damon reports women were often raped by al Qaeda members and forced into marriage in areas they controlled.

    http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/12/damon-rape-al-qaeda.cnn?iref=allsearch

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