When it comes to life, Iraq is the first and the final frontier for all humanity. This is a fact no maters how many invaders will take over and no matter how many pieces will be cut off its holy body. Iraq is like Jesus, can and will resurrect once again strong and united, simply because Iraq is the core of the ancient world, and the core for any new beginning.
An Amazing Journey in Iraqi-Middle Eastern Traditional Music
UR - al Salaam
Salaam, led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Dena El Saffar, is a Middle Eastern band based in the Midwest. The band has delighted audiences for years with its expansive repertoire of Middle Eastern and North African music, informing the uninitiated, and evoking nostalgia in listeners who are familiar with the art form.
Review of Amer Hanna-Fatuhi:
THE UNTOLD STORY OF NATIVE IRAQIS: Chaldean Mesopotamians 5300BC-Present.
Xlibris Corp., 2012.
As his subtitle indicates, Amer Hanna-Fatuhi has undertaken an enormous challenge: to chronicle the history of the original inhabitants of Iraq over an extensive expanse of nearly 7000 years.
Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail yesterday became one of ten Detroit-area writers — eighteen grants; nineteen artists in all* — to be awarded a Kresge Artist Fellowship. ArabLit asked Mikhail a few questions about the award and her current projects:
The $25,000 no-strings-attached grants go to working artists in the literary, visual, or performing arts.
The Yale University Art Gallery is celebrating the 175th anniversary of the field of Arabic studies at Yale University, which was inaugurated in 1841 when Edward Elbridge Salisbury, B.A. 1832, became the first professor of Arabic and Sanskrit in the United States. On the occasion of this milestone anniversary, the gallery presents Modern Art from the Middle East, a selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by important Middle Eastern artists rarely exhibited in the United States.
“I am the product of an amazing Iraqi environment and an open-minded society.”
The British architect of Iraqi decent, Zaha Hadid, stated on a TV show that she is the product of an amazing Iraqi environment and an open-minded society at the time, in reference to her Iraqi background. She said in a television program extended to a full hour presented by the BBC, “the sense of architectural output is a result of the fault-tolerant environment that existed at the time in Iraq.
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