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Dia al-Azzawi
Born in 1939 Baghdad, Iraq
2017/2022
Tapestry produced by Factum Arte
Exibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
After the first Gulf war, water was rare in Southern Iraq, most strategic places have been bombed. Fill your car would cost less than the price of one bottle of mineral water. And of course, the first victims were the children.
Après la première guerre du Golfe, la plupart des endroits stratégiques étaient détruits et l'eau était devenue rare. Remplir le réservoir de votre voiture coûtait moins qu'une bouteille d'eau minérale. Et évidemment, les enfants en étaient les premières victimes.
The Brutal Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 !
My First Serious Design In The Photoshop
Its So Simple But I Hope You Like It :)
Thanx For VISCA Multimedia Groub
& Abdulaziz AL-Logani " ENG LOG "
In the early morning light I bore witness to the utter beauty of God’s creation as the sun rose between a formation of clouds. I sat amazed at the greatness of a God that would make something so beautiful for us to enjoy.
This picture shows Iraqi and American soldiers working together in Iraq. Current events that include Iraq in them can be accompanied by this picture.
Standard Course of Study: 5th grade
4.05 Describe the impact of wars and conflicts on United States citizens, including but not limited to, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and the twenty-first century war on terrorism.
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In Iraqi Kurdistan there are some NGOs helping people that belong to LGBTQ world, providing them with material or psychological help. We met Johana, invented name, that told me the difficulties that she encounters in her everyday life
Keeping the "Infant" in "Infantry"....
My son sent me this shot of him and his buds. Not sure where it is (other than Iraq) or who took the shot for him.
Recently Afran, a man from Iraqi Kurdistan, fighting against his demons, attempted suicide by setting himself on fire. Before this, he tried also to take his life by throwing himself out of a window and by hitting his head against a wall. He lives now alone in a dark house, he has no relatives taking care of him. He accepted me in his house and I like to think he felt himself heard.
this is another design of the Iraqi flag. this design shows Iraq as a clean shiny new place. this design always inspires me to develop my nation and my country.
Laying between my two Iraqi Republican Guard figures is an authentic Mother of All Battles medal, awarded by Saddam Hussein to his army for his self proclaimed victory in the "Mother of all Battles", Desert Storm.
Congrats to Lando for another awesome figure. The mustache is killer, unfortunately I can't use it for my actual Iraqis because I'm doing them in flesh, but I'll find a use.
Please tell me what you think of my custom figure on the right! I like him a lot.
skinproject in pursuit of albino people all around the world, I came across Arya, a 6 years old wonderful Kurdish little boy, and his wonderful family, who lives in KRG of Iraq. They are taking care of him, even if sometimes it’s not easy, mainly because of eyes problems which affect albino people
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peshmerga story.
Salman is a young valiant Peshmerga soldier, who lost two legs, one arm, one eye and one ear on an explosive device during a military operation against Isis. When he was hit, everyone thought he was dead. “I’ve only my soul left” he says. .
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The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf. Wikipedia
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Erdogan's become the Islamist terrorist leader we knew he has always been, violently killing innocents and civilians. Is any nation or world organization going to step up and stop this!? America as leader of the Free World has been neutered by Trump, it's pathetic, corrupt, bought and paid for "leader". The U.S. could stop Turkey with a single phone call! Where is the Pentagon? Where are America's Generals of integrity? Where are America's Senators and Congressmen? Why hasn't NATO stripped Turkey of its membership in that organization? Why hasn't the EU stepped in? Germany? France? Britain? Has the entire civilized world become a group of feckless eunuchs? Perhaps it's time Israel stepped in, as an Israeli, I would support the risk. We cannot allow the genocide of the Kurds, while we still have beating hearts.
An old man smiles in from of my camera. Dohuk, Iraq
For unreleased photos of my reportage in Iraq: www.giuliomagnifico.it/iraq/
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A young girl holds a kalashnikov at a firearms class in Baghdad, at the compound of the Iranian backed Badr Brigade, August 30, 2014. The infamous Shia militia was one of a number of Iranian backed irregular proxies enlisted to defend Baghdad against the onslaught of the Islamic State.
Babylon was the capital city of Babylonia in Mesopotamia (in contemporary Iraq, about 70 miles south of Baghdad). The name is the Greek form of Babel, which is derived in turn from the Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The Gate of God". This Semitic word is a translation of the Sumerian Kadmirra.
History
The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (24th century BC short chr.), who made it the capital of his empire. Over the years it fell back afterwards into the position of a mere provincial town and remained so for centuries, until it became the capital of Hammurabi's empire (18th century BC) From this time onward it continued to be the capital of Babylonia.
The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, divided in equal parts among its left and right banks with steep embankments built to contain the river’s seasonal floods. Babylon gradually grew in extent and grandeur, but in process of time it became subject to Assyria. It rebelled against the Assyrian rule under Mushezib-Marduk and again under Shamash-shum-ukin but was besieged and taken over by Sennacherib and Assurbanipal (Kandalanu) again.
Early turmoil
During the reign of Sennacherib, Babylon underwent a constant state of revolt, which was only suppressed by the complete destruction of the capital. In 689 BC its walls, temples and palaces were razed to the ground and the rubbish thrown into the Arakhtu, the canal which bordered the earlier Babylon on the south. This act shocked the religious conscience of Mesopotamia; the subsequent murder of Sennacherib was held to be an expiation of it, and his successor Esarhaddon hastened to rebuild the old city, to receive there his crown, and make it his residence during part of the year. On his death Babylonia was left to his elder son Shamash-shum-ukin, who eventually headed a revolt against his brother Assur-bani-pal of Assyria.
Once again Babylon was besieged by the Assyrians and starved into surrender. Assur-bani-pal (or Assurbanipal) purified the city and celebrated a "service of reconciliation", but did not venture to "take the hands" of Bel. In the subsequent overthrow of the Assyrian empire the Babylonians saw another example of divine vengeance.
On the fall of Nineveh (612 BC) Babylon had thrown off the Assyrian yoke, and became the capital of the growing Babylonian empire.
With the recovery of Babylonian independence under Nabopolassar a new era of architectural activity set in, and his son Nebuchadnezzar made Babylon one of the wonders of the ancient world.
It was under the rule of king Nebuchadnezzar (605 BC-562 BC) that Babylon had become one of the most splendid cities of the ancient world. Nebuchadnezzar ordered the complete reconstruction of the imperial grounds, including rebuilding the Etemenanki and the construction of the Ishtar Gate, the most spectacular of eight that ringed the perimiter of Babylon. The Ishtar Gate survives today in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Nebuchadnezzar is also credited with the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) which he is said to have had built for his homesick wife Amyitis. Whether the gardens did exist is a matter of dispute. Although excavations by German archaeologist Robert Koldewey are thought to reveal its foundations, many historians disagree about the location, and some believe it may have been confused with gardens in Niniveh.
Babylon under the Persians
After passing through various vicissitudes the city was occupied in 538 BC by Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who issued a decree permitting the Jews to return to their own land (Ezra 1). Under Cyrus, and his heir Darius I, Babylon became a center of learning and scientific advancement. Babylonian scholars completed maps of constellations, and created the foundations of modern astronomy and mathematics. However, under the reign of Darius III, Babylon began to stagnate.
Invasion by Alexander the Great
In 331 BC The Persian king Darius III was defeated by the forces of the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great at the battle of Gaugamela, and in October Babylon saw its invasion and occupation. A native accounting of this invasion notes a ruling by Alexander not to enter the homes of its inhabitants.
Under Alexander, Babylon again flourished as a center of learning and commerce. But, after Alexander’s mysterious death in 323 BC in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar, his empire was divided amongst the generals, and decades of fighting soon began, with Babylon once again caught in the middle.
The constant turmoil virtually emptied the city of Babylon. A tablet dated 275 BC states that the inhabitants of Babylon were transported to Seleucia, where a palace was built as well as a temple to which the ancient name of E-Saggila was given. With this event the history of Babylon comes practically to an end, though more than a century later it was found that sacrifices were still performed in its old sanctuary. By 141 BC, when the Parthian Empire took over the region, Babylon was in complete desolation and obscurity.
Archaeology of Babylon
Historical knowledge of Babylon's topography is derived from the classical writers, the inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar, and the excavations of the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft, which were begun in 1899. The topography is necessarily that of the Babylon of Nebuchadrezzar; the older Babylon which was destroyed by Sennacherib having left few, if any, traces behind.
Most of the existing remains lie on the east bank of the Euphrates, the principal being three vast mounds, the Babil to the north, the Qasr or "Palace" (also known as the Mujelliba) in the centre, and the Ishgn "Amran ibn" All, with the outlying spur of the Jumjuma, to the south. Eastward of these come the Ishgn el-Aswador "Black Mound" and three lines of rampart, one of which encloses the Babil mound on the N. and E. sides, while a third forms a triangle with the S.E. angle of the other two. W. of the Euphrates are other ramparts and the remains of the ancient Borsippa. We learn from Herodotus and Ctesias that the city was built on both sides of the river in the form of a square, and enclosed within a double row of lofty walls to which Ctesias adds a third. Ctesias makes the outermost wall 360 stades (42 miles/68 km) in circumference, while according to Herodotus it measured 480 stades (56 miles/90 km), which would include an area of about 520 km² (approx. 200 square miles).
The estimate of Ctesias is essentially the same as that of Q. Curtius (v. I. 26), 368 stades, and Clitarchus (ap. Diod. Sic. ii. 7), 365 stades; Strabo (xvi. 1. 5) makes it 385 stades. But even the estimate of Ctesias, assuming the stade to be its usual length, would imply an area of about 260 km² (100 square miles). According to Herodotus the width of the walls was 24 m (80 ft).
Saddam Hussein installed a huge portrait of himself and Nebuchadnezzar at the entrance to the ruins. He also had part of the ruins rebuilt, to the dismay of archaeologists, with his name inscribed in an imitation of Nebuchadnezzar, on many bricks used. One frequent inscription reads, "This was built by Saddam Hussein, son of Nebuchadnezzar, to glorify Iraq." The bricks became sought after collectors' items after the fall of Saddam, and the ruins are being restored to their original state.
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I am leaving monday for Iraq again. I have struggled with the issue of whether or not I was going to take my D200 out there or not. After much thought, not only am I taking the D200 with me, but I am going to Iraq STROBIST STYLE! I went and got a Pelican 1500 case for the camera, flash units, and "poverty wizards".
To be specific, here is what is going:
D200
17-55MM f/2.8
SB-800
Sunpak 433D (x2)
Poverty wizards (transmitter w/mod, 3 triggers)
Manfrotto tripod
El cheapo 8ft light stands (x3)
Shoot-thru umbrella (not pictured.
Umbrella mount
I am anxious to get some strobist pictures out there, and I will post as soon as I get the chance!