Main dishes of Iraqi cuisine. Arabic cuisine in Iraqi variation

Many of Iraqis dished can be called «general Arabian» (and some of them have an Indian or Persian origin). But interesting point is what dishes from immense Middle East cuisine became a national in Iraq and what variation of cooking exactly came to stay in Iraq. In every Arabic country there is a specific, unique…

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Iraqi tea

                  It is said that there is Arabic countries where every day people drink coffee. It is said that one of them is Syria, but we can’t prove it soon. Iraq is one of the countries where national drink is a black tea. Here black tea is not the only name, but real color, because…

Iraq today. 5 general features (the first part, positive)

     There is no truth on the Earth, – how Pushkin asserts by words of his character Salieri, and hopeless continued, but there is no truth above. So, how can we, just contemplators, judge the life around us. Actually, when we come up to Iraq today.  Everything is ambiguously in modern Iraqi society, that consists…

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To buy souvenirs in Iraq

No matter when this article will be actual – this will happen.  There is no tourism in the central Iraq. For today. Because people are scared by events of last ten years, but this is not mean that people from other countries don’t come here (and when they come …..) – fist of all tourists…

Stairs and wall with photos of Iraqi cultural workers

Chronicles of al-Mutanabbi Street (part 2)

In the early eighties of the past century, the Parliament Café suffered the worst fate that might befall a cultural Café in Iraq. A Cultural café, a chess battlefield and a great forum for Iraqi, Arab and foreign writers and intellectuals, was destroyed, and in its place rose a few shops^ a shop for repairing …

The end

One evening in the Baghdad Theater

The devastation as a leitmotif – in reality and on the stage, in Iraqi art and life                   6th of April, at the Monday,  the performance by modern play «Minisima» went off in Baghdad State theater. Casting – Ahmad Monika, Ali Nadjimaddin, Hanad Nazar. Director – Munadal Dawood. The State theater of Baghdad is situated…