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Thanassis Cambanis
tcambanis
In writing a short memory of reporting in Baghdad 2003-2006 for @cjr, I came across a few personal snapshots from that period which I had forgotten. These images offer a
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Jenny 🐚
JenniBns
This woman was the very famous Asnat Barzani (1590-1670), daughter of the great Kabbalist Shmuel Barzani. The Barzani family was the head of the Jewish community in Mosul in the
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Basit
iBasitt
For those who still haven't read hassan koozagar. It is a lengthy poem by N.M Rashid, divided into four parts. It is a poem about guilt, shame, regret, and poverty.
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سلطان سعود القاسمي
SultanAlQassemi
Yesterday the world lost one of the greatest living architects, the legendary Rifat Chadirji who was born in Baghdad in 1926. There is so much to say about him that
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(((Donny))) 🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇳🇦🇪
mlirh
Massacres of Jews or 1278 Years of Coexistence with Islam?#BeforeZionism #We_Remember_Khaybar and not only627 Medina: Saudi Arabia Muhammad beheads 900 Jews628 Khaybar: Saudi Arabia 93 Jews are killed, the survivors
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B. A. Friedman
BA_Friedman
This I think is an important point that veterans should speak out about. If the police threshold for the use of lethal force is lower than it is for servicemembers
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Mustafa Habib
Mustafa_Habib33
This is not just Iraqi traditional song, behind it a lot of emotional, great & sad history of #Iraq."On the beaches of the Tigris", composed in 1950th by Iraqi Jewish
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Nîna ☀️ Dêrsim
nna_nina
1} The USA is withdrawing from Iraq and also urged Baghdad to withdraw Iranian militias from Kurdistan. That's why the dialogue between Iraq and KRG regarding Shengal came about. The
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Mike Nelson
mikenelson586
There are too many to list them all, but here's a thread to remember just some of the people I'll be thinking about today, remembered here chronologically by when they
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Jonathan Parkes Allen
Mar_Musa
Islamicate Architecture Tuesday returns with a look into one of the best known architectural and artistic components of the Islamicate world, muqarnas (a word of uncertain etymology), in its origin
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Michael P Pregent
MPPregent
"There are two camps in Washington about policy towards Iraq. The first camp includes Michael Knights from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Anthony Pfaff from the Atlantic
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Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ
CalibreObscura
[THREAD] On the fascinating reuse of expended munitions by ISIS in #Diyala #Iraq back in early 2015, in a video called "Their Goods were Returned to Them".I've heard of similar
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Sofia Barbarani
SofiaBarbarani
Today marks one year since the beginning of the #Iraq protests. When men, women and children all across the country took to the streets to demand basic services, employment and
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Bhaskar Kamble
MeruPrastara
I have always suspected that the narrative of the "Islamic Golden Age", "Islamic Mathematics" or "Arabic Mathematicians" is just myth and propaganda. In this thread I explain why. (cc @GarudaPrakashan,
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Daniel
danielmarcevans
One goal I'm going to aim for in #FlightSimulator2020 is tro circumnavigate the entire world in the Cessna C208 Grand Caravan. If you have even less of a life than
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Rich
RockboltG
Italy & Spain - their healthcare systems were overwhelmed, they're not reporting deaths in the community and not reporting excess death figures yetFrance - Excess death figures 'extremely preliminary' due
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