Iraq
imad - May 25, 2021Community History Iraq’s rich history encompasses the territory of ancient Mesopotamia, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It is known as the “cradle of civilization” because people of the region developed some of the world’s earliest writing, literature, sciences, mathematics, laws, and philosophies. Over the centuries, the inhabitants were influenced by many civilizations and
Can privacy survive?
imad - January 15, 2021In 2013, police in Grants Pass, Oregon, got a tip that a man named Curtis W. Croft had been illegally growing marijuana in his backyard. So they checked Google Earth. Indeed, the four-month-old satellite image showed neat rows of plants growing on Croft’s property. The cops raided his place and seized 94 plants. In 2018,
Plants feel pain too!
imad - January 15, 2021A team of scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered that some plants emit a high frequency distress sound when they undergo environmental stress. The researchers tested tomato plants and tobacco plants by depriving them of water and by cutting their stems and then recording their response with a microphone placed ten centimeters away. In both cases,
The Wolf of Baghdad Carol Isaacs
imad - January 15, 2021Carol Isaacs is a musician and, as The Surreal McCoy, a well-known cartoonist published in the New Yorker, Spectator and Sunday Times. The Wolf of Baghdad is also an animated slideshow with its own musical soundtrack, which is often performed by a live band including Isaacs on accordion and keyboards, playing music of Iraqi and Judeo-Arabic origin. Carol has worked with many artists
Seventy Years since the Departure of Iraqi Jews
imad - January 15, 2021The majority of Iraqi Jews were dislocated in the wake of the U.N. partition of Palestine, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Nakba. Between 1950—1951, about 120,000 Iraqi Jews ended up departing, largely for Israel, in a process called tasqit al-jinsiyya—the precondition of waiving of Iraqi citizenship required for exiting without the possibility of return. This exodus,
Sarah Bahbah
imad - January 15, 2021Sarah Bahbah, the Palestinian, Australian-raised artist crystallises the universal but rarely captured experience of oversaturated, intense feelings and imperfect relationships. Her protagonists give voice to the vast spectrum of emotion, spanning the desire for inner peace, true love, fear of commitment, playful ambivalence towards life and the paradox of wanting intimacy but craving isolation. Known
One little girl. One BIG hope.
imad - January 15, 2021Little Amal, a young refugee, embarks on a remarkable journey – an epic voyage that will take her across Turkey, across Europe. To find her mother. To get back to school. To start a new life. Will the world let her? Can she achieve what now seems more impossible than ever? Following the phenomenal international
Sand Cat
imad - January 15, 2021Physical Description Sand cats have a pale sandy to grey-brown coat, which is slightly darker on the back and pale on the belly, with occasional stripes on the legs. Bold, red streaks runs across each cheek from the corner of both eyes. Sand cats have a broad head with large eyes and low-set ears. They
Nazik al-Malaika
imad - January 15, 2021Nazik al-Malaika, one of Iraq’s most famous poets, died June 20, 2007, at the age of 83. Al-Malaika was best known for her role as a pioneer of the free verse movement, making a sharp departure from the classical rhyme form that had dominated Arabic poetry for centuries. Al-Malaika was an anomaly in her society,
Zainab Salbi
imad - January 15, 2021Zainab Salbi is the EP and Host of Through Her Eyes at Yahoo News and the author of Freedom is an Inside Job.At the age of 23, Zainab founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to serving women survivors of wars by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from