Iraq News News Iraq » Culture: Iraq's Cultural Heritage Can Be a Double-Edged Sword
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has sought to reshape its global image, shifting from a legacy of aggression-most notably the 1990 invasion of Kuwait-to one centered on cultural ...
News Iraq » Culture: Preserving the Coexistence and Pluralism That Was in Iraq
Lillie Taimoorazy (center) stands with dancers from the Shameeram Folkloric Group she founded to share the art and history of the Assyrians. In times of hardship, war, genocide or displacement, women ...
News Iraq » Culture: Iraqi artists explore the tragedy of war
ThatIraqi Artists in Exile, at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, serves up a scathing view of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. But the exhibit goes ...
News Iraq » Culture: UNHCR-run festival in Syria highlights arts and culture of Iraq
DAMASCUS, Syria, April 3 (UNHCR) - As the Iraq crisis enters its sixth year, the UN refugee agency has been highlighting the culture and artistic talents of the Iraqi people during a weeklong festival ...
News Iraq » Culture: 'Sacred job': Iraq Kurds digitise books to save threatened culture
A member of the Kurdistan Centre for Arts and Culture in the Iraqi city of Dohuk scans the pages of a rare book, part of a project to digitise Kurdish literary and historical works — Safin HAMID ...
News Iraq » Culture: Mural Arts Presents Radio Silence, a Series of Broadcasts on Iraqi Culture
Mural Arts Philadelphia presents Radio Silence, a radio series by Iraqi–American artist Michael Rakowitz that brings the Iraqi diaspora to the airwaves. Throughout the seven-episode series, ...
News Iraq » Culture: Pop Culture Drives Desire for Nose Jobs in Iraq
Deborah Amos reports on the new craze in Iraq: plastic surgery. Well-off Iraqis are seeing Western-style pop music videos featuring thin women with small noses and deciding to go under the knife. To ...
News Iraq » Culture: Mutanabbi Street: Literature in Iraqi Culture
The heart of intellectual Iraq was Mutannabi Street, the booksellers' alley in Baghdad. But it was bombed in March this year. "Aloud at Central Library" will memorialize Mutannabi Street with readings ...
News Iraq » Culture: Dr. Mohammad: 'Iraq’s Jewish history and heritage is integral to the Iraqi identity'
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Middle East History at Sciences Po. Throughout his childhood, he was not even aware a Jewish community ever existed in Iraq. As a ...