Iraq Museum, Baghdad
National Museum of Iraq
Remembering Al-Mutannabi Street - Part 4 (of 6 parts)
Remembering Al-Mutanabbi Street - Part 4 (of 6 parts)
An evening of poetry, book arts and film at the Iraqi Cultural Centre, London, on Tuesday 5 March 2013, commemorating the bombing of Al-Mutannabi Street, Baghdad, on that date in 2007.
Journalist Ibtesam Al-Tahir tells the tragic story of the Shabendah Café and its owner Mr Hamid Kashabi
Four bomb blasts in Baghdad: at least 56 dead
Shi-ite pilgrims have been targeted in Iraq, with at least 56 dead maybe more and dozens being injured. The death toll is expected to rise. This time the target was the annual pilgrimage marking the 8th century death of al-Kadhim, one of the 12 principal Shiite saints, who is said to be buried in a shrine in Baghdad.
This is the wreckage of the car bomb and the devastation at the scene of the blast in central Baghdad. People trying to clean up the mess left behind with others clearly still in shock about the damage caused to their businesses.
In all there were four co-ordinated & simultaneous explosions in yet another wave of violence fuelled by sectarianism. This apparently is the Kurdish Democratic Party's HQ in Kirkuk in the north: fire-fighters struggling to quell a blaze here and the car which apparently blew up right outside it. One local man condemning the fact that - in the current climate - offices of political parties were allowed to be situated in residential areas.
Here in Hilla, in the south of Baghdad, the front of this restaurant on the street corner's been blown clean out by two car bombs exploding within minutes of each other. It's a place apparently where police officers liked to go for breakfast. Emergency services wash blood and debris away from the scene as what's left of damaged vehicles nearby are taken away.
Iraq's interior ministry made a statement saying they'd be stepping up security across the city in expectation of more violence.
Written and Presented by Marverine Cole
السیاحة التراث و الثقافة فی قلب بغداد 2019 The Cultural and Historical Tourism in Baghdad
The Historical-Cultural and Heritage city: Baghdad
Al-Mutanabbi Street is located near the old quarter of Baghdad; at Al Rasheed Street. It is the historic center of Baghdadi book-selling, a street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. It was named after the 10th-century classical Iraqi poet Al-Mutanabbi. This street is well established for bookselling and has often been referred to as the heart and soul of the Baghdad literacy and intellectual community.
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تمتاز بغداد بعدة معالم سياحية وأثرية و ثقافیة. منطقة المتنبي هي احدی مناطق التاریخیة السیاحیة فی بغداد. ستشاهد خلال هذا المقطع جولة سیاحیة فی برج و ساعة القشلة، تمثال المتنبي، نهر دجلة، سوق السراي، شارع الرشید و شارع المتنبي.
شاهد نظرة سریعة علی مدینة بغداد 2019:
شاهد طاق کسری الاثر الاعجابی علی مد الزمان:
شارع المتنبي واكبر مكان للكتب #بغداد
جولة في شارع المتنبي وشوارع بغداد القديمة الغنية بالتاريخ الاصيل والمليئة بالفن والحضارة البغدادية .
ساعة القشلة والتاريخ المتميز حيث تعتبر شبيهه لساعة البك بين في بريطانيا .
تمثال المتنبي وشارع المتنبي للتداول الثقافي
اذا استفاديت من هذه الفيديو سوي لايك واذا كنت ممشترك بالقناة فأرجو الاشتراك .
اتمنى يعجبكم الفيديو والقناة بصورة عامة .
دعمكم حافز الي❤ حاولوا تنشرون القناة .
واهم شي .. خليكم دائما اقوياء
للتواصل على المواقع التالية :
الانستاغرام
التويتر
الفيس بوك
المتنبي شعر
المتنبي
المتنبي وسيف الدولة
شارع المتنبي
الرصافي
تمثال المتنبي
الثقافة العراقية
عمق الفن والثقافة العراقية
ملتقى العرب
ملتقى الشعراء
بغداد ايام زمان
بغداد القديمة
جمال بغداد
التاريخ العراقي
شوارع بغداد
شوارع بغداد القديمة
شوارع العراق القديمة
بغداد في الماضي
الجمعة
نهر دجلة
التراث الاصيل
التراث العراقي
منطقة المتنبي
جولة في المتنبي
جولة في بغداد
حارث المهندس
المتحف البغدادي
متحف في بغداد ستشاهدة لاول مرة
المتحف الثقافي
المتحف المتجول الثقافي
المتنبي
سوق المتنبي
شارع المتنبي
المتنبي في بغداد
المتحف الوطني
شارع القشلة
شارع المتنبي
القشلة
ساعة القشلة
ساعة القشلة في بغداد
اعمال يدوية
اعمال يدوية عراقية
اعمال فنية
اعمال فنية عراقية
اعمال فنية بسيطة
اثار العراق
متاحف العراق
المتحف المجهول
الفلوكور العراقي
النحت على الخشب
النحت على الزجاج
الرسم
رسام
تعلم الرسم
الرسم على الزجاج
تاريخ العراق
عبد الكريم قاسم
الملك فيصل
الملكية في العراق
الادب العراقي
الادب العربي
بلادي
العراق
بغداد
موطني
فن السومري
الحضارة العراقية
الشعراء العراقيين
الكتاب العراقيين
متحف المتنبي
المتحف الموجود في المتنبي
المركز الثقافي
المركز الثقافي في بغداد
المركز الثقافي في المتنبي
حارث المهندس
#بغداد
#العراق
#ثقافة
#فن
#تاريخ
Baghdad | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:06 1 Etymology
00:04:19 2 History
00:04:28 2.1 Foundation
00:11:01 2.2 Center of learning (8th to 9th centuries)
00:14:37 2.3 Stagnation and invasions (10th to 16th centuries)
00:19:30 2.4 Ottoman era (16th to 19th centuries)
00:20:49 2.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:24:11 3 Main sights
00:24:47 3.1 Mutanabbi Street
00:25:25 3.2 Baghdad Zoo
00:26:19 3.3 Grand Festivities Square
00:26:45 3.4 Al-Shaheed Monument
00:27:38 3.5 Qushla
00:28:31 3.6 Masjid of the Kadhimain
00:29:07 3.7 Masjid of Abu Hanifah
00:29:35 3.8 Firdos Square
00:30:08 4 Administrative divisions
00:34:15 5 Geography
00:34:49 5.1 Climate
00:36:58 6 Demographics
00:38:27 7 Economy
00:38:58 7.1 Reconstruction efforts
00:41:08 7.2 Retail
00:41:27 7.3 Housing
00:42:02 7.4 Education
00:42:47 7.5 Universities
00:43:13 8 Culture
00:44:19 8.1 Institutions
00:46:06 8.2 Destruction of cultural heritage
00:46:35 9 Sport
00:47:24 10 Major streets
00:49:15 11 Twin towns/Sister cities
00:49:31 12 See also
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SUMMARY
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Baghdad (; Arabic: بغداد [baɣˈdaːd] (listen)) is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2016, is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).
Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g., House of Wisdom), as well as hosting multiethnic and multireligious environment, garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the Centre of Learning.
Baghdad was the largest city of the Middle Ages for much of the Abbasid era, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1938, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arab culture.
In contemporary times, the city has often faced severe infrastructural damage, most recently due to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent Iraq War that lasted until December 2011. In recent years, the city has been frequently subjected to insurgency attacks. The war had resulted in a substantial loss of cultural heritage and historical artifacts as well. As of 2018, Baghdad was listed as one of the least hospitable places in the world to live, ranked by Mercer as the worst of 231 major cities as measured by quality-of-life.
Iraqis react to formation of new government
(12 Nov 2010)
1. Wide of street scenes in al Tahreer square central Baghdad
2. Various of street scenes
3. Mid of Liberty monument in al Tahreer square
4. People walking in the street
5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mishid al laami, Baghdad resident:
I wish that all political blocs agree to serve Iraq and the Iraqi people. And yesterday's session to form the new government was good timing and electing the president of Iraqi was good news.
6. Cutaway of people walking
7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ali Sabri, Baghdad resident:
I want to say and this is my personal opinion, the birth of a new government is a birth of new conspiracies among the political blocs, and the victim will be just the innocent Iraqi people.
8. Wide of al Tahreer square
STORYLINE:
US President Barack Obama praised Iraqi moves to form an inclusive government on Friday, but a two-day-old power-sharing deal was already looking fragile after Sunni lawmakers walked out of parliament, clouding the possibilities for working with Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Some in Baghdad were mixed in their views on Friday. Electing the president of Iraqi was good news, one man, Mishid al laami, said.
The birth of a new government is a birth of new conspiracies among the political blocs, and the victim will be just the innocent Iraqi people, another man, Ali Sabri said.
Members of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc have accused al-Maliki's Shiite coalition of breaking promises under the deal, which aimed to break an eight-month deadlock and allow the creation of a new Iraqi government.
Sunni lawmakers said they intended to press al-Maliki for explanations on Friday.
The power-sharing agreement paved the way for a parliament session on Thursday in which the first steps were taken toward forming the new government: Lawmakers re-elected Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president, and he then asked al-Maliki to start putting together his coalition administration, a process that could take several weeks.
But the session was marred by the walkout by most of Iraqiya's lawmakers, including the bloc's leader, Ayad Allawi, the man who wanted the prime minister spot.
The agreement gives Sunnis a role in the new government and gives Allawi a position as head of a still-undefined council to handle security affairs.
But that fell far short of Sunni ambitions for greater political power after years of governments dominated by religious Shiite parties.
Their hopes had been further raised because Iraqiya narrowly won the March 7 parliament elections, taking the most seats of any bloc but not a majority.
Washington has sought a greater Sunni role in the new government, fearing that otherwise disillusioned members of Iraq's Sunni minority could turn toward the insurgency, fuelling violence.
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Baghdad streets بغداد (18).DAT
Sinan Antoon Al-Mutanabbi Street: Topophilia and Violence
Sinan Antoon
Poet,Novelist,Translator
Associate Professor, New York University
Contributing Editor, Al Mutanabbi Starts Here Anthology
Thursday,March 6
متحف في بغداد ستشاهده لاول مرة #العراق
المتحف المتجول الثقافي والذي يقع في ساحة القشلة في المركز الثقافي .
هذا المتحف يفتح يوم الجمعة فقط ويحتوي على العديد من الاعمال التراثية للفنانين العراقيين .
جولة في شارع المتنبي وشوارع بغداد القديمة الغنية بالتاريخ الاصيل والمليئة بالفن والحضارة البغدادية .
ساعة القشلة والتاريخ المتميز حيث تعتبر شبيهه لساعة البك بين في بريطانيا .
تمثال المتنبي وشارع المتنبي للتداول الثقافي
اذا استفاديت من هذه الفيديو سوي لايك واذا كنت ممشترك بالقناة فأرجو الاشتراك .
اتمنى يعجبكم الفيديو والقناة بصورة عامة .
دعمكم حافز الي❤ حاولوا تنشرون القناة .
واهم شي .. خليكم دائما اقوياء
للتواصل على المواقع التالية :
الانستاغرام
التويتر
الفيس بوك
المتحف البغدادي
متحف في بغداد ستشاهدة لاول مرة
المتحف الثقافي
المتحف المتجول الثقافي
المتنبي
سوق المتنبي
شارع المتنبي
المتنبي في بغداد
المتحف الوطني
شارع القشلة
شارع المتنبي
القشلة
ساعة القشلة
ساعة القشلة في بغداد
اعمال يدوية
اعمال يدوية عراقية
اعمال فنية
اعمال فنية عراقية
اعمال فنية بسيطة
اثار العراق
متاحف العراق
المتحف المجهول
الفلوكور العراقي
النحت على الخشب
النحت على الزجاج
الرسم
رسام
تعلم الرسم
الرسم على الزجاج
تاريخ العراق
عبد الكريم قاسم
الملك فيصل
الملكية في العراق
الادب العراقي
الادب العربي
بلادي
العراق
بغداد
موطني
فن السومري
الحضارة العراقية
الشعراء العراقيين
الكتاب العراقيين
متحف المتنبي
المتحف الموجود في المتنبي
المركز الثقافي
المركز الثقافي في بغداد
المركز الثقافي في المتنبي
حارث المهندس
#بغداد
#العراق
#ثقافة
#فن
#تاريخ
Baghdad | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Baghdad
00:01:54 1 Etymology
00:03:59 2 History
00:04:08 2.1 Foundation
00:08:13 2.2 Surrounding walls
00:09:15 2.2.1 Golden Gate Palace
00:10:24 2.2.2 Abbasids and the round city
00:11:21 2.3 Center of learning (8th to 13th centuries)
00:13:51 2.3.1 End of the Abbasids in Baghdad
00:18:24 2.4 Ottoman era (16th to 19th centuries)
00:19:38 2.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:22:46 3 Main sights
00:23:19 3.1 Mutanabbi Street
00:23:55 3.2 Baghdad Zoo
00:24:44 3.3 Grand Festivities Square
00:25:10 3.4 Al-Shaheed Monument
00:25:59 3.5 Qushla
00:26:49 3.6 Masjid of the Kadhimain
00:27:22 3.7 Masjid of Abu Hanifah
00:27:50 3.8 Firdos Square
00:28:21 4 Administrative divisions
00:32:07 5 Geography
00:32:39 5.1 Climate
00:34:39 6 Demographics
00:35:55 7 Economy
00:36:25 7.1 Reconstruction efforts
00:38:27 7.2 Retail
00:38:46 7.3 Housing
00:39:19 7.4 Education
00:40:02 7.5 Universities
00:40:26 8 Culture
00:41:29 8.1 Institutions
00:43:07 8.2 Destruction of cultural heritage
00:43:33 9 Sport
00:44:20 10 Major streets
00:46:04 11 Twin towns/Sister cities
00:46:19 12 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Baghdad (; Arabic: بغداد [baɣˈdaːd] (listen)) is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2016, is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).
Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g., House of Wisdom), garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the Centre of Learning.
Baghdad was the largest city of the Middle Ages for much of the Abbasid era, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1938, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arab culture.
In contemporary times, the city has often faced severe infrastructural damage, most recently due to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent Iraq War that lasted until December 2011. In recent years, the city has been frequently subjected to insurgency attacks. The war had resulted in a substantial loss of cultural heritage and historical artifacts as well. As of 2012, Baghdad was listed as one of the least hospitable places in the world to live, and was ranked by Mercer as the worst of 221 major cities as measured by quality-of-life.
SARA PURSLEY The Times of Revolution in Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom
The Iraqi artist Jawad Salim’s famous Monument to Freedom, which still stands in Baghdad’s Liberation Square, is usually read as a linear historical narrative of the Iraqi nationalist movement and the 1958 revolution it produced. Pursley’s talk explores heterogeneous conceptions of time in the work, including depictions of cyclical forms of temporality that reference Khaldunian historical time, Shi`i messianic time, and the time of mourning. She suggests that these forms of time do not work against promises of radical change in the monument, but, on the contrary, give such promises more imaginative purchase than they typically achieve in linear modernization narratives, with their tendency to open onto a singular and static future. Pursley’s talk is followed by Q&A with Sinan Antoon, award-winning author and Associate Professor at the Gallatin School at New York University.
Sara Pursley is Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.
The talk was sponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries Series and by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. It took place on May 10, 2018 in the McCune Conference Room, IHC, UC Santa Barbara.
Baghdad | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:34 1 Etymology
00:05:21 2 History
00:05:30 2.1 Foundation
00:10:59 2.2 Surrounding walls
00:12:22 2.2.1 Golden Gate Palace
00:13:53 2.2.2 Abbasids and the round city
00:15:07 2.3 Center of learning (8th to 13th centuries)
00:18:29 2.3.1 End of the Abbasids in Baghdad
00:24:39 2.4 Ottoman era (16th to 19th centuries)
00:26:16 2.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:30:29 3 Main sights
00:31:10 3.1 Mutanabbi Street
00:31:55 3.2 Baghdad Zoo
00:32:59 3.3 Grand Festivities Square
00:33:31 3.4 Al-Shaheed Monument
00:34:35 3.5 Qushla
00:35:40 3.6 Masjid of the Kadhimain
00:36:21 3.7 Masjid of Abu Hanifah
00:36:55 3.8 Firdos Square
00:37:34 4 Administrative divisions
00:42:38 5 Geography
00:43:18 5.1 Climate
00:45:58 6 Demographics
00:47:47 7 Economy
00:48:25 7.1 Reconstruction efforts
00:51:07 7.2 Retail
00:51:30 7.3 Housing
00:52:11 7.4 Education
00:53:06 7.5 Universities
00:53:35 8 Culture
00:54:57 8.1 Institutions
00:57:07 8.2 Destruction of cultural heritage
00:57:40 9 Sport
00:58:40 10 Major streets
01:00:58 11 Twin towns/Sister cities
01:01:15 12 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- improves your listening skills
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- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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Speaking Rate: 0.7503482744903768
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Baghdad (; Arabic: بغداد [baɣˈdaːd] (listen)) is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2016, is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).
Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g., House of Wisdom), garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the Centre of Learning.
Baghdad was the largest city of the Middle Ages for much of the Abbasid era, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1938, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arab culture.
In contemporary times, the city has often faced severe infrastructural damage, most recently due to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent Iraq War that lasted until December 2011. In recent years, the city has been frequently subjected to insurgency attacks. The war had resulted in a substantial loss of cultural heritage and historical artifacts as well. As of 2012, Baghdad was listed as one of the least hospitable places in the world to live, and was ranked by Mercer as the worst of 221 major cities as measured by quality-of-life.
Al Mutanabbi
Irakien poet,1001 nights arabian book.
Baghdad | Wikipedia audio article
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Baghdad
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Baghdad (; Arabic: بغداد [baɣˈdaːd] (listen)) is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2016, is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).
Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g., House of Wisdom), garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the Centre of Learning.
Baghdad was the largest city of the Middle Ages for much of the Abbasid era, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1938, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arab culture.
In contemporary times, the city has often faced severe infrastructural damage, most recently due to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent Iraq War that lasted until December 2011. In recent years, the city has been frequently subjected to insurgency attacks. The war had resulted in a substantial loss of cultural heritage and historical artifacts as well. As of 2012, Baghdad was listed as one of the least hospitable places in the world to live, and was ranked by Mercer as the worst of 221 major cities as measured by quality-of-life.
Life After The Fall - Storytelling from Iraq
(Visit: Novelist Sinaan Antoon and journalist Leila Fadel join UCSB’s Mona Damluji for a post-screening discussion of Kasim Abid’s 2008 film Life After the Fall. They discuss the difficulties of living and working in U.S.-occupied Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the decline of security and safety, loyalties-of-necessity to one’s particular neighborhood in the power vacuum that ensued, and the complications and sometimes harrowing difficulties of everyday life. At issue in particular is each guest’s struggle to tell stories about Iraq that felt honest, empathetic, and adequate when most narrativization of Iraq at the time tended to feel too superficial (U.S. media coverage), too insular (stories from inside the Green Zone), too nostalgic (for a functional Iraq, if one under dictatorship), or too limited in scale (to the scope of whatever groups, such as families or friends, that were intimate enough to permit trust).
Recorded on 05/10/2018. Series: Carsey-Wolf Center [7/2018] [Show ID: 33760]
iraq
Iraq is a country in western Asia.the country borders turkey to the north, Iran to the east , Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. the southern part of Iraq is within the Arabian peninsula. Iraq has a narrow section of coastline measuring 58 km on the northern Persian gulf and its territory encompasses the Mesopotamian alluvial plain, the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range , and the eastern part of the Syrian desert. two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates run south through the center of Iraq and flow into the Shatt AL-arab near the Persian gulf.these rivers provide Iraq with significant amounts of fertile land.
Living Without Them
Powerful, multi-media exhibition by Lilianne Milgrom, consisting of ceramic sculpture, installation and video with poetry by Saul Sosnowski.Contemporary art with a sociopolitical conscience, Living Without Them deals with extremist violence in Iraq, spotlighting the destruction of books in Baghdad's al-Mutanabi booksellers' street. The artist uses the book as metaphor for a society's legacy and ultimately, civilization's survival. Exhibited at the American University Museum, Washington, DC, in May, 2008.
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Baghdad (; Arabic: بغداد [baɣˈdaːd] (listen)) is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2016, is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).
Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g., House of Wisdom), garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the Centre of Learning.
Baghdad was the largest city of the Middle Ages for much of the Abbasid era, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1938, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arab culture.
In contemporary times, the city has often faced severe infrastructural damage, most recently due to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent Iraq War that lasted until December 2011. In recent years, the city has been frequently subjected to insurgency attacks. The war had resulted in a substantial loss of cultural heritage and historical artifacts as well. As of 2012, Baghdad was listed as one of the least hospitable places in the world to live, and was ranked by Mercer as the worst of 221 major cities as measured by quality-of-life.