Articles tagged "baghdad"

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Once a country of fervent readers, Iraq now starving for books

by Corinne Reilly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.Apr.09] :. BAGHDAD - When Maysoon Kadhim began working on her master’s thesis at Baghdad University two years ago, she braced for the challenge. After all, her paper’s subject is Shakespeare, whose...

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In search of song amid sounds of war in Baghdad

by Leila Fadel [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Aug.08] :. “I am living between heaven and hell /My day is night and my night is day /Grief and pain” —Umm Kulthoum, the late Egyptian singer BAGHDAD - For more than 30 years, Yousef Taleb...

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Film Review

Nice Bombs (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.07] :. Though it seems casual, even random, Nice Bombs manages a consistently acute observation of tensions between troops and citizens, expectations and realities.

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