Mosul’s celebrated museum has not recovered since Islamic State group jihadists ravaged its ancient treasures several years ago, but part of the complex reopened Tuesday to showcase more contemporary art. For the first time since IS overran the Iraqi...
Reliefs from Ashurnasirpal II’s Nimrud palace, fixed to the walls of a Scottish mansion, have been removed, stripped and sold abroad MARTIN BAILEY29th January 2019 11:03 GMT A pair of large Assyrian relief sculptures, similar to those recently destroyed...
علي بنيان، طالب في كلية الاثار حُبه للكتابة المسمارية جعلة يؤسس لمشروعه الخاص “الكتابة على الالواح الطينية”. #انا_اعمل #لعراق_جديد علي بنيان _ انا اعمل علي بنيان، طالب في كلية الاثار حُبه للكتابة المسمارية جعلة يؤسس لمشروعه الخاص "الكتابة على الالواح الطينية"....
With the trials and horrors of sanctions and war retreating into the past, Iraqi artists are looking for their muse and markets as they seek to rebuild a creative culture. NOVEMBER 28, 2017 BAGHDAD—The young Iraqi painter can’t help herself:...
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)....
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...
يحيى الشيخ.. “طقوس عشتار” طاقة الينابيع في المنفى ناجح المعموري تمتع الديك بحضور يومي ورمزي في سيرة رماد يحيى الشيخ وظل فيها صاعداً ، معبراً عن طاقته الذكورية ، وقدرته على إيقاظ الجنسانية لحظة صياحه ، في كل الأوقات...
حاوره/ علاء المفرجي / شبكة المدى تخرج من معهد الفنون الجملية ببغداد في أواخر الستينات، ثم أكمل دراسته في مدرسة خريجي الفنون الجميلة في باريس وجامعة السوربون. أربعة عقود قضاها في اوروبا منذ ان لجأ اليها من قمع النظام السابق...
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,...
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....
