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Once Neighbors, Now Strangers: Can Jews Walk Iraq’s Streets Again?
From finance to medicine, from trade to literature, Jews contributed to every aspect of society. Families spoke Judeo-Arabic, ...
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Charity sets up free shops on Baghdad walls
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
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Baghdad After the Storm
"Baghdad is a huge camp, man," says my interpreter, Yousif al-Timimi. "America didn't bring democracy. It brought walls." One morning I take a water taxi out onto the Tigris River with a boatman ...
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Buildings and homes in the early Islamic civilisation
The houses were decorated with textiles on the walls, screens and pottery ... Caliph Al-Mansur ordered the building of Baghdad between AD762 and AD767. There were around 1 million people living ...
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What were buildings like in the early Islamic civilisation?
Walls in homes and mosques were decorated with ... Doors and windows were often designed as arches. The River Tigris in Baghdad was used for trade, travel and irrigation (watering crops).
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Discovering Baghdad’s time-honoured cafe culture, one sip at a time
Some Baghdad cafes became especially popular with ... Her image adorns every available wall space and her music plays on a loop. But nobody was paying her music much attention during my visit.