Iraq’s Jewish community saves a long-forgotten shrine
Baghdad’s Jewish community restores ancient rabbi’s shrine, reviving heritage amid decades of decline.
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Gaza likely to dominate agenda as Arab League meets in Baghdad
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a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English
War on Palestinian territory expected to dominate summit, especially after Israel approves plans to expand offensive.
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza overnight as UN human rights chief warns of ‘ethnic cleansing’ – Middle East crisis live
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk says ‘we must stop the clock on this madness’
- Israel launches major offensive in Gaza
An Iraqi political official, speaking to the Associated Press (AP…
60 days ago
Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it
Samantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall …
Boot camp, matching tattoos and mutual head-shaving: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Michael Gandolfini on making Warfare
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film recounts the ordeal of US troops trapped in Iraq. Here, ex-Navy Seal Mendoza, who was one of the soldiers, discusses how the movie was made with his troupe of acto…
63 days ago
Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The country’s average temperature has risen by 0.48C a decade from 2000. Last August, photographer Susan Schulman visited Baghdad and Amarah, to capture the impact of extreme weather on everyday live…
73 days ago
‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi …
3 months ago
Flavours of the Arab Golden Age – EP 1: Baghdad and al-Andalus
A historian and a chef discover a 1,000 year-old Arab cookbook from Baghdad and how its recipes reached southern Spain.
4 months ago
Can Assassin’s Creed Shadows save Ubisoft?
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The historical action series has taken us to Baghdad, ancient Greece and the pyramids of Egypt. As it moves to feudal Japan, the stakes for its developer have never been higher
It’s no secret that the…
6 months ago
Assad's killing fields: Mass graves containing 'sacks full of human bones' are discovered near Damascus as Syrians dig up horrors of dictator's regime
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An alleged mass grave in the Baghdad Bridge area near the Syrian capital features deep trenches filled with human remains, believed to belong to slaughtered civilians.
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