Articles tagged "iraq"![]() NewsWith one bat and no uniforms, Iraq’s baseball team hits fieldby Laith Hammoudi [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][14.Jul.09] :. BAGHDAD — They’ve only got a five-year-old softball bat, a threadbare cap, three scuffed balls and nine second-hand gloves from a flea market. They train on a college soccer field. And... ![]() NewsPublisher dumps Fallujah video gameby David Ranii [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][30.Apr.09] :. RALEIGH, N.C. — A U.S. company’s plans for a video game featuring one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war have been exploded by a barrage of criticism. Atomic Games’... ![]() NewsOnce a country of fervent readers, Iraq now starving for booksby 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... ![]() Books ReviewFault Lines by Nancy Hustonby Diane Leach[8.Dec.08] :. Erra’s childish recounting of body parts that grow and those that don’t, including a count of her own lost baby teeth, is a rare moment where the narrator truly is only six. ![]() TV ReviewHouse of Saddamby Cynthia Fuchs[5.Dec.08] :. At the start of House of Saddam, the Iraqi leader watches George W. Bush announce the coming war on TV, looking into a reflection of his own end, born of hubris and deception and decades of disloyalties. NewsIn search of song amid sounds of war in Baghdadby 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... Black 47: Iraqby James Greene, Jr.[18.Mar.08] :. Bronx-based Celtic punks Black 47 offer a weak, ineffectual Iraq war protest album. PopMatters Pick![]() Film ReviewNice 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. Songs become anthems of Iraqi sufferingby James Janega [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][16.Jul.07] :. BAGHDAD—As the music video begins, the images play in the grainy, flickering manner of an old movie. A group of men carries a child on a bloody stretcher. A man in a black kaffiyeh calls out as... Boys on the Bus #3by Joe Tacopino[19.Apr.07] :. As the civil war rages on in Iraq, Congress and the Executive Branch seem unable to come to a consensus on the issue. The President has threatened to veto the recent supplemental spending bill,... PopMatters Pick![]() TV ReviewAmerica at a Crossroadsby Cynthia Fuchs[16.Apr.07] :. America at a Crossroads offers a range of films -- smart, tough, perceptive, and sad, sometimes uneven and often quite brilliant. |
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