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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 "
Amsterdam - Schiphol - 27 - 5 - 2018.
WOW ! what a rare visitor today, this Boeing 747-400 from Iraqi came in today for maintenance by the KLM, flight plan today was earlier canceld, but the flightplan was filed again, so it was for us dutch spotters Bingo !!! despite the weather, i am very happy with this rare catch !!!
YI-AQQ.
Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcons
IqAF 1602 - F-16D Block 52 - 12-0017
IqAF 1603 - F-16D Block 52 - 12-0018
Iraqi Air Force (IqAF)
Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ USA
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.
A murky view of the coast of Iraq across the Shatt Al Arab river as seen from Abadan in Iran.
Across the water lies Iraq, with Basra some 30 km up river and the Persian Gulf about the same distance down river...
This is from a "Die-In" that took place at UA today. It was part of a protest against the Iraq War. I was requested to be the photographer for the event by the group hosting it. This is my favorite shot from it.
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.
Hash Hameed, 16th Jun 2019, Sinjar, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Hash was my Dubai based marketing lady, but spent more time in Iraq than any of the London or Dubai based management team. She loved working with our business, and the business adored her in return.
In 2014 Islamic State came to Sinjar, and so began the genocide of the Yazidi. The most awful atrocities were committed here. We won work with UNMAS clearing explosive remnants of war from the area, employing mainly Yazidi girls, women deeply afflicted by conflict. I was humbled by their resilience.
Hash became and remains a great friend. An invaluable part of a great team, doing meaningful work, who were together much more than the sum of their parts.
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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About the Model
This is my 23 years old relative Athraa. The name ‘Athraa’ in Arabic means ‘Virgin’. It’s a loved name in Iraq because purity is considered a virtue and not something to be ashamed of—I agree with this not only because I am from the Middle East but also because I am Christian. It is a common name among Iraq’s Christians because the term ‘Al-Athraa’ (The Virgin) is used as a quick referral to the Virgin Mary.
Even though it looks like we played together when we were children, I had absolutely no idea her family even existed! It wasn’t until two years ago when Athraa and her family immigrated to Michigan, USA, that I heard about them. She is related to me from my mom’s family and my mom and hers were close friends as teenagers.
I’ve talked to Athraa a couple of times on the phone so when my family and hers decided to go to Niagara Falls last weekend I decided to take her photo...and I had something in mind! So I started looking for a green scarf and thank God, my sister had one. She laughed at the idea of the green scarf saying, “I’ve never worn a scarf in my life and now when I come to North America you want me to wear one!” Then I asked Athraa to put Arabic eye make-up on when she comes to the trip. She was looking forward to the photo shoot, which is always encouraging to the photographer.
The first thing you notice about Athraa is the way she talks. She speaks with such passion that all of her face’s features try to convey the message she wants to get across, and she starts signing with her hands, and her heads moves depending on the intensity of the topic! It is so cute, and everyone who meets her tells her that they love the way she speaks—she is very lovable. She also has a very beautiful voice when she sings. She sang a traditional Iraqi song and I was very surprised by how beautiful her voice was, even though my aunt had already told me that Athraa has a beautiful voice.
About Iraq’s Christians
I would like to talk about this because there are so many misconceptions about who are Iraq’s Christians. People usually think that there are no Christians in Iraq. For example, in high school I had an English teacher who asked me year after year if I was fasting in Ramadan (the fasting month in Islam) and I would tell him that I was a Christian. But he kept asking me that question the next year! People simply forget that Christianity originated in the Middle East, and that the total area of Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq is smaller than Ontario (so it wasn’t that difficult, geographically speaking, to spread Christianity)!
About a decade ago Christians used to make 2-3% of Iraq’s population, now I am guessing there are even less especially after the 2003 war. Iraq’s Christians are from four major ethnical groups: Chaldeans, Assyrians, Syriac people, and Armenians. Armenians fled to Iraq in WWI when Turkey was killing Armenia’s Christians under the Ottoman Empire; even Christians, especially Assyrians, in north Iraq were victims of the genocide. Nowadays many of Iraq’s Christians have permanently settled in other countries like Canada (especially Windsor, Ontario), USA (especially in Detroit, Michigan), Germany, England, Sweden, Spain, New Zealand, and Australia.
Here I am just going to talk about Chaldeans because my family, and so is Athraa’s, is Chaldean. Chaldeans are the native dwellers of what was known as Chaldea, and what is known today as Iraq. I don’t know if they came from somewhere else and settled in Iraq or they have always been there! After all the Garden of Eden was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which run through Iraq (Genesis 2:14)! The Bible says in Genesis 11:28, “While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth”, and it says in Nehemiah 9:7, "You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham." (Ur is a historic city in southern Iraq.) When asked I just say I am from the Middle East, because it is so much easier than saying I am a Chaldean and then I get a blank stare back! And if someone assumes I am an Arab I don't correct them, unless they ask; to me it doesn't matter what my ethnicity is because the only thing that really matters is who I am in Christ.
As you have guessed by now being a Chaldean is not a religion or a faith but it is an ethnicity. However, traditionally (and by birth) Chaldeans are Christian; just like saying an Israelite is Jewish by birth, or a Russian is Orthodox Christian by birth. Most Chaldeans in Iraq are Roman Catholics. However, a lot of Iraq’s Christians, like me, have abandoned the Roman Catholic church and embraced other denominations that are non-traditional and teach salvation is through God’s grace only. I personally don’t belong to any denomination, but if I had to choose one then I would probably choose Baptists.
The mother language of Chaldeans is Aramaic; however, present day Chaldeans speak a modern version of the old Aramaic language. Aramaic was the business language of the Middle East in Biblical times. Therefore, when two different groups of people wanted to communicate they spoke Aramaic (just like English is the international language nowadays). The Bible says in 2 Kings 18:26, “Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, ‘Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.’” Our Lord spoke Aramaic; actually, a friend of mine told me he understood some of the Aramaic dialect in the movie The Passion of the Christ. Aramaic, Arabic, and Hebrew seem to come from one parent language--or were developed at the same time and influenced greatly by one another--because there are many common words between them.
Athraa and I don’t speak Aramaic--we speak Arabic--because our parents didn’t speak it neither did our grandparents; this is common among people who lived in the city for many generations since Arabic is the national language of Iraq. I was often looked down upon by other Chaldeans because I do not know Aramaic (which is not a bad thing if you know my testimony), and Muslims often wondered how I could be a Christian and not speak Aramaic. Again, people were confusing ethnicity, religion, language, and nationality.
Finally, Athraa and I are Iraqis—that’s our nationality. I guess it is similar to an Aboriginal person born in Quebec, Canada, to parents who have been living in the city for many generations. His ethnicity would be Aboriginal, his language would be French, and his nationality would be Canadian. You see, it is not that difficult!
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PS: I was going to title this photo "The Forgotten: Iraq's Christians", but then I realized that God doesn't forget His creation even if humans did--He definitely didn't forget me. Athraa and her family left Iraq because they received threads, "You must pay money for living in Muslims' land or pay with your lives." They decided to sell their house, pay the money, and leave the country. Sad how people like Chaldeans and Assyrians who have been living in Iraq before Arabs and Islam even existed are kicked out of their land, the land of their ancestors, and the only place they have ever known as home because suddenly it belongs to someone else! And now they are scattered all over the world losing their ethnical and national identity which they held for thousands of years.
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Note: The above information about Chaldeans may not be completely accurate because Assyrians claim that Chaldeans are not the descendants of the original Chaldeans of Abraham, but are Assyrians who separated from the Eastern Church and joined the Roman Catholic Church about 5 centuries ago and so were called "Chaldeans" to differentiate them from Assyrians.
I am glad that this photo has won a 'beauty' challenge on dpreview.com: www.flickr.com/photos/f_j/4926403970/ :)
(Niagara Fall, ON; summer 2010.)
A man brewing chai at a busy street in Erbil, Iraq. Photo taken by Andrej Trček on 30th of March 2016.
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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Petite ville kurde accrochée au flanc d'une montagne.
Les kurdes d'un certain âge sont très fiers de porter le costume traditionnel.
K U R D I S T A N - 💛❤💚كوردستان💋
NEWROZA WE PÎROZ BE!
All dancing together because they are the kurds from Kurdistan, Kurdistan is not Iraq Iran Turkey not Syria either, we want United kurdistan not divided land between three different cultures different tradition and different languages than our own unique Kurdish
With fire, music, and dancing, the people of Kurdistan celebrate Newroz
بمناسبة عيد نوروز إلى الشعب الكوردي.
NEWROZ LI HER ÇAR PARÇEYÊN KURDISTANÊ PÎROZ BE!!! HAPPY NEWROZ
50 million occupied Kurds across 4 regions
The Struggle for Freedom: Justice for the Kurds
We want Freedom for Kurdistan.
Just reminder for my people, never forget they kill us just because we’re the Kurds we have our own culture tradition heritage history and path which are different from theirs , don’t forget don’t forgive, we are the origin people of this land they’re just invaders
Peshmarge Message
We were fighting against terror to protect humanity
kurdistan, Kurdish struggle for Peace, Freedom . Democracy
Thanks for your visit
kurdish & proud ❤️️💛💚
بۆ پاراستنی کوردستان ببێتە فەرهەنگی هەموومان
وەک کێو .. لە ناو دڵی میللەتەکەت
وەک کێو .. بەرامبەر دوژمنانی میللەتەکەت
بــە کـــەرکـــوکــدا زانــیــم،
خـــیـــانـــەت ، چـــی لـــە دڵــــی مـــرۆڤ دەکــــا..
خاک و نیشتیمان وەکو دایک وایە
ئەوەی خاک و نیشتیمانەکەی بفروشیت
وەک ئەوە وایە دایکی خوی فروشتووە
Kerbala, "ville Sainte" pour les Chiites qui la considèrent comme le 5 ème lieu saint après La Mecque, Médine, Jerusalem et Najaf.
(Patrimoine de l'UNESCO depuis 2019).
En 680, Al Hussain ibn Ali petit-fils de Mahomet et son demi-frère Abbas ont été battus à la bataille de Kerbala. Les pèlerins chiites ont pris l'habitude de se recueillir sur le site de la bataille et sur leurs tombeaux. Les 2 sanctuaires ont subi de nombreuses destructions et reconstructions, certaines récentes en raison des conflits...Ils ont des dômes et minarets dorés et sont décorés de mosaïques.
Ils sont reliés par une esplanade et 2 passages couverts où près de 30 Millions de pèlerins se pressent par an en provenance d'Iran, Inde, Pakistan, Arabie...Ceux ci sont particulièrement nombreux pendant l'Achoura et l'Arbain qui rappellent les martyrs d'Hussain et d'Abbas .
Les hommes et les femmes sont séparés...les femmes sont tenues de porter le tchador...et le sanctuaire est ouvert 24h/24h.
L'entrée réservée aux hommes du Mausolée d'Hussain.