Category: Iraq
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)
The first conference for Iraqi bloggers started today the 8th of February in the city of Sulaymaniyah with the participation of more than 70 Iraqi bloggers. All the men and women participated from all over Iraq. This conference will be …
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Posted on February 2, 2012 by Aya (Iraq)
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when hearing the words “the little boy”? Innocence? A new life? White and blue? Or maybe even a toy? 67 years ago, in Japan, “THE LITTLE BOY” didn’t mean innocence; it …
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Posted on January 31, 2012 by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)
according to a Sumeria news web site the editor of an Iraqi newspaper has threaten to start a law suit against Baghdad sceuirty operations ,after a group of Iraqi forces beats a news papers seller in his stand in the street in the 28th of Jan 2012 , because he …
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Posted on January 30, 2012 by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)
The U.S. squad leader accused of having had primary responsibility for the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005, avoid jail time…people in Iraq can not believe that no justice will be given to the city that still lives in the horrific memory of the killing. Staff Sergeant …
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Posted on January 29, 2012 by Aya (Iraq)
This is something I wrote when I was thinking how war/life in middle east stole away my (and many other’s) childhood, and shuttered most of our dreams, but I’m still trying to pick up the pieces of my dreams, and …
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Posted on January 27, 2012 by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)
All pictures are copyrighted and you need to mention the owner in case of re posting them ( pictures by iraqi streets website …www.iraqistreets.com ) Today in Baghdad the Iraqi people celebrated the memory of the great iraqi sculptural Jawad Salim, the clebration was orgnize by …
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Posted on January 22, 2012 by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)
A new regulation by the women affairs coordinator in the Iraqi Ministry of Oil has raised many campaigns of protest by Iraqi women and human rights activists. The regulation forbid women working in the ministry of wearing dresses, skirts, modern …
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Posted on January 19, 2012 by Laween Atroshi
Dear Friends of Kurdistan, I have set up an e-petition urging the British Government to recognize the Genocide inflicted upon the Kurdish population by the former regime of Saddam Hussein. If we get 100,000 signatures than they will debate this …
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Posted on January 19, 2012 by Laween Atroshi
Throughout history the kurds have been forgotten and stigmatized as having a high record of unemployment, lack of human rights and primitive education. To treat this misperception as Kurdish professionals we have a ethical & moral duty to represent Kurdistan …
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Posted on January 12, 2012 by Suzan Boulad (Syria)
On January 11th a disturbing video began to make the rounds along various sites on the internet, showing exclusive footage of a group of US Marines in full combat gear huddled around several dead bodies in what appears to be …
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