U.S. Department of State and Smithsonian Partner on Emergency Cultural Heritage Work in Iraq Share Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC March 30, 2017 The State Department and the Smithsonian announce a new $400,000 project to...
A New Atlas maps for the Archaeological Sites in Iraq Abdulameer al-Hamdani The State Board of Antiquities and heritage Iraq-Baghdad Introduction Documenting and registering cultural heritage in places that have witnessed armed conflicts and wars are fundamental to safeguarding...
العمة اليزابيث.. الآثارية التي احبت العراق! عبدالجبار جعفر لجمعة 10 شباط 2017اا حدثني عنها كثيرا وعن مواقفها اتجاه اثار العراق واثارييه من الطلاب والباحثين الذين احبتهم كثيرا واحتضنتهم، بضمنهم محدثي سواء يوم التقته، لاول مرة،عندما كان يحارب وحده بسيف...
Iraq: No country for young men By offering no future, the Iraqi government is risking a great deal Man sells flowers BAGHDAD, 5 September 2016 Saif fights the so-called Islamic State for a living and can barely pay his...
10/8/2016 12:00 صباحا بغداد – هدى العزاوي بين ساحة الميدان وبداية جسر الجمهورية، تبرز علامة بغداد الفارقة والمميزة مثل وشم على جسد عروس جميلة، فمن لم يزر شارع الرشيد فإنه لم يشهد رئة بغداد التي تتنفس منها مدينة السلام،...
Unesco has named Iraqi marshlands once ravaged by dictator Saddam Hussein as a world heritage site, a bright spot for a country where jihadists have repeatedly sought to wipe out history. The area named “is made up of seven...
The Christian-Muslim Symbiosis of Mosul Amir Harrak | Professor of Middle Eastern Society, University of Toronto Christianity in Mosul dates to the time of the Apostles. Initially, the faith was centered on the side of the Tigris opposite present...
اكد السفير اليوناني ديونيسيوس كيفيتوس أنَّ بلاده “ستـُصوِّت على إدراج مواقع العراق الأثريّة على لائحة التراث العالميِّ، والمساعدة في إعادة الآثار المسروقة للعراق صحيفة المدى
UNESCO Director-General addresses the Europe Lecture 2016 on heritage protection as a security issue “The destruction of heritage is inseparable from the persecution of people. This is why we consider the protection of cultural heritage today as far...
ندوة عن ترشيح الأهوار ضمن لائحة التراث العالمي صحيفة المدى شهدت قاعة المتنبي في دائرة العلاقات الثقافية العامة، التابعة لوزارة الثقافة والسياحة والآثار يوم الخميس الماضي ، ندوة حوارية بعنوان ” أهوار الجنوب ملجأ للتنوع البيولوجي وإرث مدن بلاد...
By Shazia Ahmad Like many other first-generation Muslim kids in the Capital Region in the ’90s, I grew up spending hours of my weekend at the local mosque, learning the ABCs of Arabic (or more accurately, Alif, Ba, Taa)....
Report from Iraq By Michael W. Albin This presentation is a follow-up to the paper presented at the 75th Jubilee of the DC-SLA. It’s divided into two parts. The first is a good news...
IRBIL, IRAQ— Father Najeeb Michael saved as many people as he could. Right before Islamic State stormed his village, he packed as many people as possible into his car and fled to Irbil in the dead of night. “It...
The Georgetown Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic:Arabic-English, English-Arabic by Mohamed Maamouri Washington, DC, 2013 Price: $79.95 In his review of this new work William Kopycki of the Library of Congress writes, “there is no doubt as to the usefulness of...
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On 31 March 2016 in a Miami hospital, Architect Dame Zaha Hadid dies after heart attack. Architect Dame Zaha Hadid, whose designed many of the century’s most famous and controversial structures, has died aged 65. Iraqi-born, this year she...
Christians celebrate Easter in Iraq Christians celebrate Easter in Iraq as they have done every year, in spite of the 2003 war. While there may be no peace and the security situation deteriorates, hundreds of thousands of Christians continue...
http://dp8hsntg6do36.cloudfront.net/56df1c5aff2afb7066000002/35dfff8e-ce69-44b4-89c6-9725b97f9e11low.webm The Greek island of Lesbos is the gateway to fortress Europe for many of those fleeing war and poverty amid the ongoing refugee crisis. There, an international group of aid workers and volunteers seeks to help refugees...
The Iraqi Mandaeans Celebrate the Holy Day of Creation In the mid of all the political chaos, the financial difficulties and racial tensions and threats that clouds the Iraqi Scene, the Iraqi Mandaean community began celebrating their holy Day of...
Excavation of Ancinet Ur A recent reportage produced exclusively by Al Hurra Network in 2016. The reportage covers the recent excavation works carried out by a team of archaeologists headed by Dr. Abdulamir Hamdani from Stony Brooks University, New York....
The Greek island of Lesbos is the gateway to fortress Europe for many of those fleeing war and poverty amid the ongoing refugee crisis. There, an international group of aid workers and volunteers seeks to help refugees in their...
Iraqi and American archaeologists are digging at one of the world’s oldest urban centers—and finding evidence of the earliest long-distance commerce. By Andrew Lawler PUBLISHED FRI MAR 11 07:00:00 EST 2016 UR, IRAQThe bleak and tawny desert of southern...
Baghdad hosts a world exhibition of fine art and poetry this week, according to Middle East Online March 7, 2016. The exhibit is part of the broader effort to restore the Gulbenkian Hall, considered a focal point of...
Controversial Artifact Fuente Magna Could Re-Write Ancient History – America’s Mysterious Rosetta Stone The Fuente Magna is a very controversial artifact that is sometimes referred to as America’s Rosetta Stone. This mysterious object raises a number of interesting and...
آثاريون غربيون يعودون للبحث عن “النايدرتال ” في كهف “شانيدار” بإقليم كردستان بغداد/ المدى برس كشف عالم آثار كردي عن عودة فريق آثاري غربي إلى إقليم كردستان لمواصلة استكشاف كهف شانيدر بعد طرد مسلحي “داعش” من المنطقة، مبيناً أنه...
Iraqi Jewish Documents at the National Archives By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, The New York Times WASHINGTON — These are not the weapons of mass destruction that the American Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha was seeking in Iraq during the spring of...
عبد الجبار العتابي صدر للكاتب العراقي مازن لطيف كتابه الذي يحمل عنوان (مثقفون عراقيون يهود في خدمة صاحبة الجلالة الصحافة العراقية) عن دار ميزوبوتاميا بشارع المتنبي ببغداد ، والكتاب يتناول سير ذاتية واحوال اليهود في العراق وحوارات مع مثقفين...
Dame Zaha is an Iraqi–British architect. In 2004 she became the first woman recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012 she was made a dame. In 2014 the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre,...
اعلنت امانة بغداد، الاثنين، ان مليوني شخص احيوا الاحتفال بعيد الحب مساء امس في عموم مناطق العاصمة بغداد. وقالت امانة بغداد في بيان تلقته “سكاي برس”، إن “قرابة مليوني شخص احيوا الاحتفال بعيد الحب (الفالنتاين) مساء امس الاحد في...
By Mark Jenkins February 11 In March 2007, a bomb killed 30 and wounded 100 on Baghdad’s Al-Mutanabbi Street. This carnage is dwarfed by the devastation in Iraq, Syria and other countries in the region since the 2003 U.S....
THE ODYSSEY OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND ITS SCRIPT by Habeeb Salloum* The Arabic language is the youngest of Semitic idioms which include Aramaic, the Assyro-Babylonian tongues, Ethiopic, Hebrew and South Arabic like Sabean and Himyaritic. However, it is...
فيلم “بغداد خارج بغداد” يشارك في “مهرجان المؤلف” في الرباط متابعة المدى يتنافس الفيلم العراقي (بغداد خارج بغداد) للمخرج قاسم حول على جوائز المسابقة الكبرى للدورة الحادية والعشرين من “مهرجان المؤلف” في العاصمة المغربية الرباط للفترة من التاسع والعشرين...
الطير الراقص من الألم في مسرح يوسف العاني فاتن حسين ناجي يمتلك الكاتب المسرحي يوسف العاني قدرة على تصوير الموقف الساخر والناقد منذ بداياته الأولى مع المسرح . ويرجع ذلك إلى أن العاني كان مهموماً بوجع الإنسان العراقي الذي...
في حوار مع الأديب علي لفته سعيد:رغم الارتباك السياسي الذي يعيشه العراق إلا أن الحركة الأدبية في أوج نعيمة لمسفر علي لفته سعيد، كاتب وشاعر عراقي، ولد جنوب العراق سنة 1961، أصله سومري من مدينة سوق الشيوخ جنوبي الناصرية،...
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A unique cultural festival standing in solidarity with the people of Iraq and celebrating freedom of expression. January – March 2016.
Author: Ahmad Thamer Jihad Both the international archaeological teams researching history in Dhi Qar and the locals working with them believe that what they find here, the remnants of ancient history, has the potential to unite Iraqis. The best...
Report by www.theguardian.com Museum’s £3m government grant will equip future trainees in conservation and restoration of destroyed heritage sites in Iraq. The British Museum is to establish a pilot program with heritage professionals in Iraq to train local museum curators,...
