She was a writer, an innovator, an activist, an artist, a musician, and the least to say about her that she was someone who could speak English, French, German and Latin fluently.
The 20th of June, 2007, marked another sad day in the modern history of Iraq when Nazik Al-Mala’ikah has died at the age of [...]

Thirteenth in a beautiful series of paintings by Baghdad Artist

Photo of Moon and Planet over Baghdad by Marshmallow26
“To light a candle is much better than cursing the darkness.”
So signed off Ausama on his last video for Hometown Baghdad.
Today I will concentrate my post on reactions to the second bombing of the shrine in Samarra. An event that has provoked much speculation among Iraqi bloggers. [...]

(Cross Posted from Global Voices Online)
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Written by MixMax for his blog “Mix Mode” and cross posted to the Olivebranch Network
I don’t want to sound weird with such a title to this post, but I will start with this question: didn’t everyone expect last year when the dome of the shrines in Samara was bombed, that this would happen again?.
I am [...]

Based on our theory that Iraqis tend to lose interest in everything good or bad so fast, my friend and I were baffled by the fact that the cycle of violence has been on for unbearably long stretches of time.
Based on the same theory, I could not help noticing how people’s reactions have evolved. I [...]

Some of the foundations of religious faith at that time were based on intercession, meaning that when people claim to hold to the prophet’s companions or household, then it does not mean following their way of life, but to get their intercession on judgement day. People believed that life is mortal, and is not worthy [...]

Iraqi Moral Values:
Iraqis in the Ottoman period were closer to Bedouin values than Islamic values, due to the control of the ‘Bedouin tide’ on them, there is a stark difference between the values of Bedouins and Islam, in a nutshell, Bedouin values glorify racism, vengeance, looting, killing women to wash away shame and so [...]

Ali al-Wardi is often considered the ‘Godfather’ of Iraqi sociology, A secular-styled writer of Shiite lineage, al-Wardi has written what many considered to be the definitive books on the history of Iraq and the psychology of its unfortunate inhabitants. His neutrality, which rejected both Marxist communism and Pan-Arab nationalism (the two major sparring factions at [...]

We had something to celebrate last week. After a long lull, our house was blessed with routine search NUMBER TEN, by the Iraqi army this time. They said they were clearing the area of terrorists and just wanted to make sure everything was in place, and nobody was trespassing on nobody’s residence.
Mum and I know [...]