#Baghdad

[zegalba]

Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad (1983) Designed By: Ismail Fatah Al Turk

#Al-Shaheed Monument #Baghdad #iraq #sculpture #art #Ismail Fatah Al Turk #1983

[mapsontheweb]

Today is the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. This map shows the contrast between civilian and US/Coalition casualties in Baghdad, with each dot's size correlating with the number of casualties reported on a given day

#maps #iraq war #baghdad #2000s

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, engage Iraqi forces in running gun battles through the streets of Baghdad, in order to capture the bridge on the east side of the capital city on April 6, 2003.

(Photo by Christophe Calais/Corbis via Getty Images)

#usmc #us marines #infantry #grunts #oif #operation iraqi freedom #baghdad #military #history #warrior wednesday

[dragoneyes618]

"Jews have lived throughout the Middle East and North Africa for thousands of years, of ten in communities that long pre-dated the Islamic conquest. But during the mid-twentieth century's tumultuous power shifts in the region between colonial and post colonial control, political instability, and antisemitic violence intensified to create a vast exodus, driving nearly a million Jews to emigrate to Israel and elsewhere, leaving entire countries all but dead of Jews - and leaving behind synagogues, schools, and cemeteries that served these communities for generations. The circumstances of this mas migration varied. In some places, like Morocco, the Jewish community's flight was largely voluntary, driven partly by sporadic antisemitic violence but mostly by poverty and fear of regime change. At the other extreme are countries like Iraq, where Jews were stripped of their citizenship and had their assets seized, and where, in the capital city of Baghdad, a 1941 pogrom left nearly two hundred Jews murdered and hundreds of Jewish-owned homes and businesses looted or destroyed." 

- Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

#dara horn #people love dead jews #antisemitism #history #jewish history #arab history #arab communities #baghdad #morocco #pogrom

[vyorei]

Live coverage of the 7th of February 2024 is now closed.

Here is a recap of today's major events.

It is 12am in Ireland now so I have to go to bed.

I'll be back to resume live updates on Friday as I have medical appointments.

For continuous updates while I'm gone, click the link below:

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #benjamin netanyahu #Hamas #Iraq #USA #Baghdad #Kata'ib Hezbollah #Rafah #Antony Blinken #Recap #Summary #Current events #Latest news #Updated news #Goodnight

[3ai]

#mine #iphone11promax #تصويري #المتنبي #كتب #ادب #street #books #oldstreet #aestheitcs #baghdad #iraq #بغداد #العراق #blogger #library #vintage

[totallyhussein-blog]

Iraqi Jewish confectionery are a window into a bygone era

Five days a week, 78-year-old Tzvi (Sabah) David rises at 4:35 a.m. and dons an all-white baker’s outfit before heading out to open up Konditorei David, the last-of-its-kind Iraqi pastry shop in Petah Tikva that was opened by his father David Tsalah.

Three days before the Purim holiday, David is getting ready for one of the busiest times of the year as multiple generations of Iraqi customers will soon stop by to purchase sweets that have been synonymous with Purim for Iraqi Jews for centuries, if not millennia.

“I love the work. It is a very tiring and difficult job and I am not 18 anymore, but I feel young in the morning when I get up,” David tells Eliyahu Freedman of The Times of Israel on a recent visit to the small shop, which doubles as a window into the pre-modern world of Middle-Eastern pastries.

His first item of business today is making a fresh batch of baba qadrasi, also known in Arabic as “mann el-sama” or “manna from heaven,” named after the legendary food that God miraculously delivered from the sky to feed the Israelites in the Exodus story.

If not truly the biblical food itself, an early recipe for baba qadrasi was found in a 10th-century Abbasid cookbook.

#manchester #iraq #iraqi #london #uk #baghdad #liverpool #scotland #usa #jewish history #jewish cuisine #culture #confectionaries #europe #history #catering #restaurant #brunch #foodie #cuisine #breakfast #purim 2024 #purim #happy purim #jewish culture #jewish food #jewish joy

[henk-heijmans]

An Iraqi child jumps over the remains of victims found in a mass grave south of Baghdad, 2003 - by Marco Di Lauro (1970), Italian

#Marco Di Lauro #Iraq #Baghdad #victims #grave

[elierlick]

Shortly after the first Gulf War, Iraqi artists installed a "dog-like" George HW Bush mosaic reading “BUSH IS CRIMINAL” in the Al Rasheed Hotel. Everyone who passed through the hotel, where most foreign dignitaries would stay, would have to walk on the face of the president.

The U.S. military was apparently unhappy with the unflattering Bush portrait. Rumor in Baghdad is that they intentionally murdered the artist, Leila al-Attar, with precision Tomahawk missiles months after installation. A strike hit her house, killing her and blinding her daughter.

U.S. soldiers smashed the Bush mosaic with hammers and chisels in 2003. The notoriously Islamophobic commander, Lt. Col. Rick Schwartz, boasted that he threw a portrait of Hussein onto the floor for soldiers to stomp on instead as they trashed and pillaged the country.

#9/11 #iraq #baghdad #history #politics

[elbosta]

coppersmiths of baghdad :)

#middle east #arabic #iraq #baghdad #العراق #بغداد

[nesyanast]

Bar Mitzvah in Baghdad, 1961. Photo courtesy of Maurice Shohet Source: exhibit.ijarchive.org (Iraqi Jews Archive)

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #judaism #jewish culture #mizrahi jews #mizrahi #iraq #iraqi jews #Baghdad #1960 #bar mitzvah #vintage photography

[furqan-mamorri]

اجذب عليكم اذا اگولگم ما احب بغداد. ♥️

#baghdad #iraq #books #no edit #my camera roll #minepost

[mapsontheweb]

Map of medieval Baghdad around 1000 CE, with AOE2.

#maps #baghdad #aoe2 #1000

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, advance up a street in the capital city of Baghdad, as they keep a watchful eye out for snipers in the adjacent buildings on April 6, 2003.

(Photo by Gilles BASSIGNAC/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

#usmc #us marines #infantry #grunts #oif #operation iraqi freedom #baghdad #military #history

[stuckinapril]

Baghdad moodboard 🇮🇶🤍

#i miss it so much every day #I visited ONCE this summer for the first time in a decade and now I’m so hungry to just go back #and be in an environment where there’s so much culture & Arabic murmurs in the air #i miss my bibi #I miss my uncle #i miss walking through the streets and imagining my mom growing up there #i never got to do that but it doesn’t mean I won’t treasure the capital as if I did #also my biggest flex is I got to see all these landmarks on my trip #baghdad #iraq #home #mb

[wearepeace]

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola

#manchester #photography #nature photography #media #nature #uk #iraq #naturelover #iraqi #baghdad #british history #us marines #usmc #mosul #emile zola #spring flowers #spring #springtime #flowers #garden #daisies