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Thread documenting Iraqi culture by me:
History of Sinjar: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5832/1/5832_3247.PDF?UkUDh:CyT
The story of a brave Kurdish woman who tried to assassinate Saddam. https://twitter.com/hawresulin/status/1114664650166210561
Iraq's ethnoreligious breakdown: https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1122241336990666752
The reason there are hardly any 3jam left in Iraq: https://twitter.com/NewMidEast/status/1126299848137957377
Origins and history of the Shabak ethnic group. https://mobile.twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1126295341492514818
Pictures from the Iraq War. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1126533435076567040
A piece of Baghdad's more multicultural past from my own community. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1130938726664818694
Afro-Arab dance and music from Basra https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1134927872286760963
Thread detailing Iraqi women's cultural dress from various ethnicities. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1135581882186440707
Not sure if this counts as Iraqi culture but it counts as Amin culture. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1136825495725772800
A legendary car in Iraq called the duck and the eulogies written and sung about it. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1137412457373294593
American soldier's handbook to Iraq. Lots of information contained here on cultural, political, criminal, sectarian, and military landscape of Iraq. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1137815654915104771
Thread on the Kurdish-Assyrian village of Rekan and how the local Kurds protected their Assyrian neighbors from other Kurds and Turks during the Assyrian genocide. https://twitter.com/DannoSwo/status/1136660000535920640
Not Iraqi, but related to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and an island that was once part of mesopotamian civilization. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1144396104282320896
The demographic changes of Baghdad in the last century and during the Iraqi Civil War https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1146071732211597323
Football’s greatest ever underdog - the story of how Iraq won the 2007 Asian cup championship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=DG1Z2S6dGus
In light of recent protests and the wave of fake news surrounding them, here are some more reliable sources of analysis. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1182880984531984384
Life of the Marsh Arabs of South Iraq, who have inherited quite a few traditions from ancient Sumer. https://twitter.com/a_manluv/status/973804973426380800
Hope this woman is doing well right now.
Iraqi anti-Ba'athist rebels from Nasiriyya (1991)
Album detailing the industrial rape and torture of Iraqi men and women and boys in Abu Ghraib by violent barbaric Americans.
(VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED) https://imgur.com/a/C6mLO#QSi3hIwhttps://imgur.com/a/C6mLO#QSi3hIw
(VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED) https://imgur.com/a/C6mLO#QSi3hIwhttps://imgur.com/a/C6mLO#QSi3hIw
"The Taguba study noted that more than sixty per cent of the civilian inmates at Abu Ghraib were deemed not to be a threat to society"
Kharrab Amrika
Kharrab Amrika
No red blooded Iraqi man can tell me the violation of our women doesn't make him shake with anger.
This land can only be cleansed with the blood of American occupiers.
KHARRAB AMRIKA
الموت لامريكا
This land can only be cleansed with the blood of American occupiers.
KHARRAB AMRIKA
الموت لامريكا
This is what the United States of America did to Iraqi women.
American soldiers raped a married Iraqi woman. Just one room over from her son.
الموت لامريكا
الموت لامريكا
SON OF BABYLON:
Film about a Kurdish family searching the mass graves of South Iraq.
Film about a Kurdish family searching the mass graves of South Iraq.
Exposing the violent Da3eshi sectarian, AbdelBaset Sarout. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1137401284175306754
The life of an Iraqi born in 1980 https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1210554467852136448
Images from the Iraq-Kuwait war. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1211109289898774528
The very low image and color quality and outdated cameras used in this thread are reflective of the abject technological backwardness Saddam kept South Iraq in.
Compare this to the Kuwait thread. https://mobile.twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1211115629119447041
Compare this to the Kuwait thread. https://mobile.twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1211115629119447041
The story of an Iraqi American woman who left as a baby returning to Iraq. Her father participated in the 1991 rebellion. https://www.mlive.com/iraq/
PLEASE LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW. 
SHARE WITH AMERICAN AND ARABIC SPEAKING FRIENDS AND FAMILY. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1213093569684221953
SHARE WITH AMERICAN AND ARABIC SPEAKING FRIENDS AND FAMILY. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1213093569684221953
IF AMERICA DOES NOT STAND DOWN THERE WILL BE MASS BLOODSHED. https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1213027096102092800
Style of dress in Iraq among young men changing over time https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1217623953935687681
Thread about Assyrian Female fighter who stood against Saddam. https://twitter.com/Che_Movina/status/1218586438389895174
Drag race in Najaf, Iraq.
By Riot Gear Iraqi auto-enthusiasts club. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1218660801126588424
By Riot Gear Iraqi auto-enthusiasts club. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1218660801126588424
Thread of youtube videos documenting the nature, people, and culture of the Shia Kurdish majority city of Khanaqin where people of different identities and sects lived side by side in peace during the Iraqi Civil War. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1218675289154342912
Khaneqin stands in contrast to Kerkuk, a nearby city that is also diverse, and home to Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen but home to much ethnic and sectarian violence in the last 2 decades.
WHY IRAQIS SAY DEATH TO AMERICA - A Thread https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1219104056410550274
Why Iraq's cultural scene has suffered since 2003. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1221682856445075457
Short political thread on Muqtada's stances. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1224875762882207744
A PDF about the Mandaean people of Iraq.
A pacifist Semitic ethnoreligious group which has faced historical persecution from the violent destabilization of Iraq by the US invasion as well as their marginalization in Iran.
https://startts.org.au/media/RT32_Mandaeans.pdf
(Thank @TheKuwthar!)
A pacifist Semitic ethnoreligious group which has faced historical persecution from the violent destabilization of Iraq by the US invasion as well as their marginalization in Iran.
https://startts.org.au/media/RT32_Mandaeans.pdf
(Thank @TheKuwthar!)
I found this MASSIVE PDF of all the Arab and Kurdish tribal confederations, tribes, and sub-tribes of Iraq.
https://www.academia.edu/23293647/THE_IRAQI_TRIBAL_SYSTEM
https://www.academia.edu/23293647/THE_IRAQI_TRIBAL_SYSTEM
Saddam's crime 32 years ago. 5,000 Kurds murdered in one day.
A documentary on Saddam's racist and sectarian destruction of Iraq from North to South with Western backing, sparing no-one and nothing, poisoning the environment and the people for generations to come. https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1241090379765764105
A look into the Iraqi exile community in Jordan.
Iraq from 2003 till the present. 
Iraqi Celebration of the holiday Garge'an in Karbala.
Garge'an is celebrated by Iraqis, Khaleejis, and Khuzestan Arabs.
It is a holiday on the 15th of ramadan demarking the birthday of the Shia Imam Al-Hassan(AS), and likely started in Bahrain.
Garge'an is celebrated by Iraqis, Khaleejis, and Khuzestan Arabs.
It is a holiday on the 15th of ramadan demarking the birthday of the Shia Imam Al-Hassan(AS), and likely started in Bahrain.
My Eid Al-Fitr 2020 message in Arabic and English. https://twitter.com/IbnAlRafidayn/status/1264490277592498176?s=20
For those of you who may be planning to visit Iraq or communicate with family back home, this Iraqi Arabic to English dictionary may be of use.
http://opac-caknur.fah.uinjkt.ac.id/repository/EB17029.pdf
http://opac-caknur.fah.uinjkt.ac.id/repository/EB17029.pdf
An artwork edit I did featuring some of Iraq's persecuted minorities alongside other indigenous people. https://twitter.com/IbnAlRafidayn/status/1270315387620646912?s=20
Map of Iraq's historical and cultural zones.
Though "Gulf" should be called as Basra, Furat as Dulaim, Desert as Al-Badiya, and Assuristan as just Assyria.
Don't know where the name Piedmont came to Iraq from.
Though "Gulf" should be called as Basra, Furat as Dulaim, Desert as Al-Badiya, and Assuristan as just Assyria.
Don't know where the name Piedmont came to Iraq from.
An archive of the once vibrant Jewish life in Modern Iraq before their dispossession and exile. https://ijarchive.org/
Thread of different clothing styles of Assyrians by locale. https://twitter.com/karl_marxapone/status/1283251666297344001?s=20
One of Dr. Abdul Qadir Omar Miran's articles before his assasination by the Barzani clan.
He was an Iraqi Kurdish academic who supported the Assyrian & Yezidi peoples, and spoke out against the American occupation of the country.
http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2008/05.23.08/index_mon.php#result_box https://twitter.com/IbnAlRafidayn/status/1283786940739989505?s=20
He was an Iraqi Kurdish academic who supported the Assyrian & Yezidi peoples, and spoke out against the American occupation of the country.
http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2008/05.23.08/index_mon.php#result_box https://twitter.com/IbnAlRafidayn/status/1283786940739989505?s=20
Article by Aina detailing his murder http://www.aina.org/news/20051228162050.htm
Thread of ancient cities where Assyrian, Arab, And Persian civilizations flourished in Mesopotamia. https://twitter.com/IbnAlRafidayn/status/1285631075595759616?s=20
Thread of Iraqi watermelon art. https://twitter.com/azizm987/status/1287703256211357696?s=20
A thread of photos and videos from the Battle of Najaf (2004).
When American criminals entered one of the holiest cities of Shia Islam and killed hundreds of people in its streets. https://twitter.com/ha964_/status/1293774094794551297?s=21
When American criminals entered one of the holiest cities of Shia Islam and killed hundreds of people in its streets. https://twitter.com/ha964_/status/1293774094794551297?s=21
Thread of Iraqi R&B/slow Jazz fusion music https://twitter.com/IbnAlRafidayn/status/1293720758406057985?s=20
