(Note for our English language readers this photograph essay of 5 photographs with the title عمالة الاطفال في واسط in Arabic means “Child Labour in Wasit”) Clicking the photographs will take you to the flickr page with the full size photograph. )
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Tags: child labour, Children, Photos, Scenes From An Iraki Childhood, Wasit
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Irak is experiencing a heatwave. Temperatures in excess of 50°Celsius are now occurring everyday. I have told the others to use their generators for water cleaning, for their refridegerators and fans. That children and relations comes first and writing comes a very distant second. Expect very light posting for the next few days.
Um Thalit...
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O God, forgive our living and our dead, those who are present among us and those who are absent, our young and our old, our males and our females. O God, whoever You keep alive, keep him alive in Islam, and whoever You cause to die, cause him to die with faith. O God,...
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احتفل اليوم الأحد مسيحوالعراق والعالم بعيد الفصح والذي يعتبر أهم
ألأعياد لدى مسيحي العالم والعراق. ويتذكر المسيحيون في هذه الأيام معاناة المسيح بسبب اضطهاد اليهود للمسيح. اذ كانت الطبقة المتنفذة لدى السلطة الدينية اليهودية يومها والذين يدعون الفريسيين هم ابرز من كان يعارض المسيح خلال رسالته وهم من المحافظين على تقاليد الأمة اليهودية يومها
وجاء احتفال...
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Tags: Christians, Easter, Easter 2010, Easter Eggs, Mosul, Team Members
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25:40. And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
(Et respondens rex, dicet illis: Amen dico vobis, quamdiu fecistis uni ex his fratribus meis minimis, mihi fecistis.)
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رغم مرور سبع سنوات على الغزو الأمريكي المشئوم ، إلا أن مستقبل العراق مازال غامضا ، بل وظل التساؤل الذي يشغل كثيرين دون إجابة قاطعة وهو : هل كان صدام حسين الحل السحرى لبلد ذي تركيبة طائفية واجتماعية معقدة كالعراق ؟ .
صحيح أن صدام ارتكب أخطاء لاتغتفر بحق معارضيه وجيرانه ، إلا أن الوقائع...
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O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.
We have successfully located and identified the body of our much loved team member and friend Mohammed Dulaimi, the body of his wife Shada and the bodies of their children Abdullah, Omar,...
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O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females.
There will be no postings today or tomorrow — funerals.
Khalil
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Tags: Attacks on medical and humanitarian workers, Child Killing, Corpse Findings, Death Squads, Team Members
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Dear President Obama,
I work every day with people whose human rights have been grotequely abused, torture survivors, the families of death squad victims, people unlawfully detained by your soldiers, people forced to flee their homes in terror, widows, orphans.
Additionally I do a lot of work with other Iraki feminists trying to vindicate the...
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