Two Caliphates Fall: Mosul Survives Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri was in ruins when the city was retaken from jihadists in June 2017 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons). “We are Ottomans.” My grandmother said this in 1996. She came from...
Where the books weren’t burned: Baghdad’s ancient library Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned in the chaos of 2003, but one of its libraries escaped this fate and a historic collection survived The al-Qadiriyya library holds historic copies of...
Where the books weren’t burned: Baghdad’s ancient library Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned in the chaos of 2003, but one of its libraries escaped this fate and a historic collection survived The al-Qadiriyya library holds historic copies of...
Free speech, religious tolerance, an understanding of the dignity of others, the liberty of the individual, the freedom to make the most of one’s talents, and respect for the institutions of our democracy are what make Britain great The...
All Things Assyrian Ancient Assyria in Color By Tom Porter http://community.bowdoin.edu Posted 2018-03-09 18:15 GMT With a flick of a switch, the lights on the projector came on accompanied by a sharp intake of breath from the assembled...
A Surreal Story from Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi’s brilliant novel imagines a monster, pieced together from the dead of Iraq’s civil war. By ROY SCRANTON March 2, 2018 Frankenstein in Baghdad begins with an explosion in Baghdad’s Tayaran Square, the...