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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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