Then and Now ; Requiem for Baghdad, by Patrick CockburnCockburn, Patrick
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“You can't get blood out of stones,'' a proverb which was believed by a lot of people. But our speaker Mr. Mahmoud has another opinion. Mr. Mahmoud Mohsen Yaseen graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He was appointed as a teacher of computer and then a teacher of mathe...
Thereafter Baghdad became a provincial capital, first of the Mongol emperors ofIran, theIl-Khanid dynasty(1258–1339), and then of their vassals, theJalāyirids(1339–1410). In 1401 the city underwent yet another sack, byTimur(Tamerlane), after which it fell under the sway of two successive...
Lift down the burden from the head of this poor porter:—whereupon the cateress placed herself before him, and the portress behind him, and, the third lady assisting them, they lifted it down from his head. They then took out the contents of the crate, and, having put everything in ...
Maurice’s job was to take the plans, adjust them if necessary, then hire painters (artists, house painters) to paint the ships accordingly. Freedman, who attended the Rhode Island School of Design after the war, donated the plans and photos in his collection to the Fleet Library at RISD....
Later in life, that anticipated moment of return would mature into a political desire to reclaim the utopian political dreams and aspirations of multiple generations. But until then, you pile up whatever hope and rage you can and hold onto it. ...
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French Algerians are still encouraged to stay out of tourist Paris. Curfews are regularly imposed on the estates, with armoured vehicles filled with paramilitaries moving in during disturbances. When particularly heavy rioting broke out in 2005, the then interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, imposed a...
I said, “Of course not. You have work tomorrow and I don’t know whether I’ll work all night or not. I’ll call the Iraqi News Agency first to know which hospital they’ve taken the wounded to, then I’ll leave a message for Hilmi Amin.” ...