Learn Iraqi Arabic Dialect And Culture

28/02/2020

"Kufic script is one of the most recognizable and exquisite scripts of Arabic calligraphy. It is so revered and foundational that medieval Egyptian encyclopedist Al-Qalqashandi once declared: 'The Arabic script is the one which is now known as Kufic. From it evolved all the present pens.'”

DUBAI: Practiced for hundreds of years, Arabic calligraphy is being acknowledged on a grand scale in 2020. Saudi Arabia has declared 2020 as the Year of Arabic Calligraphy, and UNESCO has registered Arabic calligraphy on its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage. “Like many of my colleagues, I was...

17/01/2020

A row of musicians with strings and percussion — including instruments like a joza, santoor, doumbek, riq and naqqarah — play a steady backdrop of notes and rhythms. A vocalist then joins them, singing partially improvised melodies of the maqam tradition — a system of melodic improvisation which originated in 400 years ago.

In addition to holding teaching positions at Rutgers University and Sarah Lawrence College, Al-Saadi has performed at the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum.

01/11/2019

27/10/2019

Tahreer Square In Baghdad
🇮🇶 Iraqis protesting against the failure of the political process

12/10/2019

A Poem For The Men And Women Of Iraq

You went out
demonstrating
searching really
for freedom
and justice

You marched
with the voices
of the poor
and the left
behind

And some
of you
were shot
dead
in the
street

But those
still standing
went back
the next day
demanding
answers and
change

And then
even more
were shot
dead

And still
you came
back
on the
continuing
days
with your
strength
visible
and growing

And one
of you called
out in
hope and desperation

"Just give us
a country,
we just want
a country
to live in."

Nothing more
Nothing less

29/09/2019

Iraq / Karblaa : Islamic Architecture

27/09/2019

Save Iraqi culture monument

Save Iraqi culture monument (or Nasb Enqath Al thaqafa) (Arabic: نصب انقاذ الثقافة‎) is monument located in Mansour district in Baghdad, The monument was commissioned in 2010 by the Mayor of Baghdad and the design was the inspiration of Iraqi sculptor, Mohammed Ghani Hikmat. This monument is a cylindrical column of broken stone and the agent of the fall represents the Iraqi culture, and there is a group of hands and arms surrounding it as an expression of its attempt to support it so as not to fall (that is, so to save culture from falling, and written cuneiform symbols meaning here Writing begun).

23/09/2019

When I give you an authentic Iraqi word like "kleicha", please don't change the filling, because it will change the whole meaning of that word and the taste of the original food.😊😊