Memoirs of an Iraqi woman

Do people watch the news? Questioning …..

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Knock knock … the double glazing window Seller …. you must have seen us on TV?
No, I don’t watch TV ….
Neither do I … I only choose to watch episode …

And I wonder… in the past you had a limited number of channels and if you miss the news on one you will probably be forced to watch it on another channel if nothing else is worth watching…..

With the advances in Technology this is no longer the case…

And I ask, how isolated many people are from reality? Assuming that TV news channels are an indication of reality or what money makers want us to believe reality is?
How many will dig deep in searching for the Real News?

Welcome to the material world …..

Why do Arabs love Erdogan?

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I am not sure if I do like Erdogan because I don't really follow politics closely as I regard it as a soul corruptive wast of time.
However, I do feel sad that Turkey failed to protect its history (good and bad ) as history is the identity of a nation. Abandoning your Alphabets and changing the way you dress doesn't make you an open minded and educated industrial nation.

Europe sold nationalism to nations under slogan of freedom and democracy as part of divide and conquer strategy. We need education not only in Science and Technology but also in Islam and History.

My grandfather served the Ottoman Empire so as many other members of my family who died in Turkey defending the Ottoman Empire.

“Who run the world? Nerds”

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Scientists, Feeling Under Siege brings back memories to Iraq Scientific Research Programmes which almost vanished as a result of ‘liberating Iraq’ reducing a country which in the 70s eliminated literacy (and then a leading ‘developed’ state in the MENA region); to nothing but a pit of corruption.

Since, many scientist has either been chased, killed or left the country. While, Iraqi youths either no longer afford to go to school or suffering from a crumbling education system. This is a country which used to offer free education and donate school books to neighbouring countries!

Invasion  or Liberation?  I ask, that leads to the murder of Iraqi expertise and the burning of its own scientific research archive !?

History repeats itself, as during the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols, the books from Baghdad’s libraries were thrown into the Tigris River in such quantities that the river ran black with the ink from the books.

As you google for information about the Iraq Scientific Research Centre you don’t find much information about what once was a leading research compound in the Middle East .

Scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad – Maqamat Al Hariri illustration by Yahya Al-Wasiti

My Grand Father and World War I 

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My Grand Father and World War I  – a journey back into history

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My grandfather was the manager of the Ottoman Empire telegram office in Al-Amara Iraq when the British army marched through Iraq in 1914.
They (I am told) refused to surrender and he was captured as a prisoner of war then transferred to India for 5 years. When he was released back to Iraq, he was unwell and didn’t live for very long. Continue reading →

An Excuse 

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Is the deliberate association of Sunni Arabs to ISIL is part of a plan to gain support for displacing Iraqis ?  The dominating forces in Iraq are executing a plan for demographic change

Let’s remember that Iraq under the tyrant Sadam was a secular country where no extremists religious terrorist organisation existed …

Sectarian Tensions flare in Baghdad as some Sunni Arab families forced from Neighborhoods

No victorious but GOD, Andalusian tile