#iraqi

[zegalba]

A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, while waiting for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint village of Shaqouli after she fled her home with her children on November 10, 2016.

[wearepeace]

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.” ― Neil Armstrong

[secular-jew]

The Jews of Iraq are one of the most ancient communities of the Middle East.

Jews arrvied in Iraq in 586 BCE, and later drafted the Talmud in the Babylonian cities of Pompedita, Nahrdeah, and Surah (Modern day Fallujah).

[totallyhussein-blog]

Iraqi Jewish confectionery are a window into a bygone era

Five days a week, 78-year-old Tzvi (Sabah) David rises at 4:35 a.m. and dons an all-white baker’s outfit before heading out to open up Konditorei David, the last-of-its-kind Iraqi pastry shop in Petah Tikva that was opened by his father David Tsalah.

Three days before the Purim holiday, David is getting ready for one of the busiest times of the year as multiple generations of Iraqi customers will soon stop by to purchase sweets that have been synonymous with Purim for Iraqi Jews for centuries, if not millennia.

“I love the work. It is a very tiring and difficult job and I am not 18 anymore, but I feel young in the morning when I get up,” David tells Eliyahu Freedman of The Times of Israel on a recent visit to the small shop, which doubles as a window into the pre-modern world of Middle-Eastern pastries.

His first item of business today is making a fresh batch of baba qadrasi, also known in Arabic as “mann el-sama” or “manna from heaven,” named after the legendary food that God miraculously delivered from the sky to feed the Israelites in the Exodus story.

If not truly the biblical food itself, an early recipe for baba qadrasi was found in a 10th-century Abbasid cookbook.

[majestativa]

I dream, I dream, but do not wake Except to dream another dream.

— Nazik Al-Malaika, Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nazik Al-Malaika, transl by Abdulwahid Lu'lu'a, (2021)

[nobrashfestivity]

Hayv Kahraman, from series How Iraqi Are you? Oil on linen ©Hayv Kahraman. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman gallery.

[yourdailyqueer]

Zhiar Ali

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 2 September 1999

Ethnicity: Iraqi - Kurdish

Occupation: Activist, singer, songwriter, journalist

Note: On 16 June 2023, Ali published a redesign of the Kurdistan Pride Flag on Twitter. The design combined elements of the Kurdish flag with the LGBT flag, aiming to celebrate the intersectionality of identities and provide visibility to LGBTQ+ Kurds.

[swanasource]

"There are no more words to speak about what's going on in Gaza. There are no more laws to break. There are no more appeals that we can do […] The hypocrisy is obvious, our collective humane [sic] has failed. We said that we would not fail, but we are failing again. Human rights have a skin color, and the darker you are the less human rights you have. They have tried to make us look like antisemites. They have tried to make us look like we don't care about the safety of the Israeli people. All that, still, to make it possible to kill more Palestinians.”

Swedish-Iraqi member of the European Parliament, Abir Al-Sahlani in parliament this week.

[fattributes]

Maqluba with Lamb

[dronescapesvideos]

B-1B #Lancer “The #Bone” #strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to the killing of 3 U.S. troops

B-1B Lancer Documentary:

[wearepeace]

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[secular-jew]

This is not traditional dress....this is

[girlactionfigure]

The US officially accepts responsibility for the assassination of the senior commander of the Iraqi Hezbollah brigades.

American Central Command:

At 21:30 this evening we eliminated the senior commander of the Iraqi Hezbollah brigades who was directly responsible for planning and carrying out the attacks on the American forces in the area.

Video: The vehicle in which the senior commander of Hezbollah Iraq was eliminated.

[majestativa]

Yes, my sweetheart. The sea alters its colors. [...] It sometimes drinks the sunset’s blood.

— Nazik Al-Malaika, Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nazik Al-Malaika, transl by Abdulwahid Lu'lu'a, (2021)

[lilithism1848]

Your trauma is watching the richest country of the world suffer one terrorist attack and get massive global support and consolation all while said country decided to go on a 20-year-long warmongering temper tantrum.

My trauma is watching Vietnam get bombed, poisoned, and burned down for a decade, then watching the world conspire to sanction it and intentionally keep it in poverty for another decade, and then just pretend that all is good and well.

Shut the fuck up.