"In a vibrant #Baghdad district, laborers are working tirelessly to repair the centuries-old #shrine of a revered #rabbi in an effort to revive the long-faded heritage of #Iraq’s #Jewish community.
A few months ago, the tomb of Rabbi Isaac Gaon was filled with rubbish. Its door was rusted, the windows shattered and the walls stained black from decades of neglect."
34th Arab League Summit Commences in Baghdad Amid Gaza Crisis Concerns #NorthAfrica #WestAfrica #34th #Arab #Baghdad #Commences #Concerns #crisis #Gaza #league #summit
https://tinyurl.com/yvmaakmd
"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.
The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."
#MattGaetz and #ErikPrince would like you to remember that military contractors massacring #Iraqi civilians in broad daylight was "good for America".
Outgoing Japanese Ambassador to Iraq, Futoshi Matsumoto, signs off his diplomatic duty in #Baghdad by singing the Iraqi national anthem 'My Homeland' while donning a #keffiyeh.
'My Homeland' was written by Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan and turned into a song by Lebanese musician Mohammed Flayfel in 1934, quickly becoming a popular tune across the Arab world.
Today is the luckiest 
day in the life of #GeorgeWBush. In 2008, during a press conference in #Baghdad , journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi took off his shoes and threw them at the clueless #POTUS yelling "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoe-throwing_incident
Bush was lucky to not be assassinated. He was responsible for the deaths of over a million innocent Iraqis and thousands of young #American soldiers during the #WarOverOil started after ‘faked yellow cake’.
#OpenAccess maps on #MENAdoc:
„Umgebung von Baghdâd : aufgenommen 1916“ (1917)
US military contractor CACI to face retrial over allegations of torture at #Iraq prison
Tyler Li | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA
June 15, 2024
"The case against #CACI is one of many legal actions against private military contractors accused of detainee abuse, including those against #TitanCorporation (later known as L-3 Services) and CACI for their roles in alleged abuse at #AbuGhraib, as well as against #Blackwater for incidents like the #NisourSquare massacre in #Baghdad. Many of these cases faced similar legal challenges, specifically dismissals based on national security concerns and the complexities of applying US law to actions taken in war zones."
Israeli and other media reporting that Ismail Qhani the head of #IRGC #Quds force who replaced #Soleimani after #US drone strike killed him in #Baghdad a few years ago, to be among those killed by Israeli massive bombing of #Beirut last week
He has not been seen it n public since the attacks and both Iranian and Lebanese media deny the reports.
#Iran #Israel #Lebanon #Politics #Military
@palestine @israel @lebanon
Iraq has successfully recovered thousands of stolen artifacts.
These priceless pieces of history were seized from smugglers and are now held at the National Museum in Baghdad.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/07/08/iraq-stolen-treasure/
No matter which "side" you are on concerning the dust-up at the LA synagogue last week, I guarantee that you will find something to challenge your assumptions in the latest CounterVortex podcast.... From #Baghdad to #Bialystok —to #PicoRobertson
https://countervortex.org/blog/podcast-from-baghdad-to-bialystok-to-pico-robertson/
The Mongol conqueror #Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu captured #Baghdad and ended the Abbasid #caliphate in the city in 1258.
I just read a text that asserts that around 25 years later, the Muslim vizier Shams al-Din Juvayni was involved in a plot to restore the caliphate, but he was put to death when Hulegu's grandson Arghun overthrew his uncle Teguder Ahmad. This is probably just slander, but it is surprising slander in a #Syriac text written in the late 1310s!
I'm (re)reading the History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban Sawma.
Doing the #Baghdad walk: art tour highlights creativity in the heart of #Iraq - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/doing-the-baghdad-walk-art-tour-highlights-creativity-in-the-heart-of-iraq "Annual tour shows war-torn capital is still alive with invention and reflection"
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” ― William Shakespeare
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another #Iranian - the current mayor of the capital #Tehran - put it even more bluntly. He said that the Islamic Republic now ruled over four Arab capitals: #Baghdad , #Beirut , #Damascus and #Sana’a.
It was a #Libyan journalist in response to #Bush 's axis of evil' speech who said that these three countries instead formed an axis of resistance because they were against colonial and American interests and that phrase went on to be picked up by Iranian media.
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