in 2010 Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director for "The Hurt Locker," the story of a US bomb disposal team in Iraq. "“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle." https://t.co/RTxTMqOwgw

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A MoMA PS1 Exhibition Examines the Living Legacy of the Gulf Wars: In January 1991, armed forces led by the United States commenced combat against Iraq. Including a military build-up that started the prior year in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait,… https://t.co/s20P4t7Xys

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“We reject further war, imperialism and militarism by our government. We oppose a war against Iran, call for the lifting of sanctions, the rejoining of the Iran Nuclear deal, & removal of U.S. troops from Iraq.” https://t.co/xwnzbn8Qdu

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Layla Al-Attar is my Great Aunt and seeing this stopped my heart. I never had the chance to meet, her much less travel to Iraq. Her sister/my grandma Suad Al-Attar is an artist too and you can see how the war in Iraq completely shifted her style. https://t.co/ClUkes7uZd

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Layla Al-Attar is my Great Aunt and seeing this stopped my heart. I never had the chance to meet, her much less travel to Iraq. Her sister/my grandma Suad Al-Attar is an artist too and you can see how the war in Iraq completely shifted her style. https://t.co/l5AVJO62GF

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Manuscripts from the Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq. A grammar book with geometric decoration, written in script, in the language, it dates to the 17th/18th-century. The author is Timotheos Isḥāq, Metropolitan of Amid (active 1654-1665).
via: hmml

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BOHICA Blues: https://t.co/JHIA8fSTJj
A slice-of-life comedy about an Army Reserve unit of "weekend warriors" that get sent to Iraq. It is a long-form story told in "gag-a-day" format, rated about PG to PG-13.

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Frahm, E., & Tryon, C. A. (2018). Origins of Epipalaeolithic obsidian artifacts from Garrod's excavations at Zarzi cave in the Zagros foothills of Iraq. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 21, 472-485.

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My name's Rasha, I'm 21 and from Iraq. 5 years ago my country got into a war and I lost a lot, I needed a thing that could distract me from living in fear so I knew back then, after that war she was helping me to get over my hard time 💐

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An image from our "Into Our Own Hands" which focuses on Nora and her daughter Muna who were forced to flee from violence in You can read their story here: https://t.co/MnwQIIrhg1 The comic was created for

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Hayv
(Artist born in 1981, Baghdad, Iraq. Lives and works in Arizona).

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From Inuit mythology comes the Ijiraq. A shape shifting creature who kidnaps children. Legend has them as people who went too far north, and became trapped between the world of the living and the dead.

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The first record of eagle ray Aetobatus flagellum from Shatt Al-Basra canal, south of
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Back to Art School in a weekly cartoon series by Khudair Alhimyari https://t.co/MdpA72kJNT

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Sneak Peek! Joe wraps up his conversation with the activist dude. Soon, he'll head back to Iraq.

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