Symbols of Iraqi civilisation unveiled at the Basrah Museum
Just in time for Iraq’s football victory at the Arabian Gulf Cup in Basra that drew thousands of fans to ...
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Seven dead after landslide strikes Iraqi Shiah shrine
The collapse of an Iraqi Shiah shrine on Saturday (20 August) some 17 miles west of Karbala is a crucible ...
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Iraqi artists remove their works from Berlin Biennale over Abu Ghraib photography row
The Iraqi artists who objected to their works being shown at the 12th Berlin Biennale now say they plan to ...
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Iraqi artists decry Berlin Biennale’s display of photographs showing tortured inmates at Abu Ghraib prison
More than 340 people, including artists Ali Cherri and Michael Rakowitz, have signed an open letter supporting Iraqi artists who ...
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British tourist’s 15-year prison sentence for antiquities smuggling overturned by Iraqi appeals court
After spending six and a half weeks in Baghdad’s notorious Rusafa prison on charges of antiquities smuggling, retired British geologist ...
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Abdulamir Al-Hamdani, the revered archaeologist and former Iraqi culture minister, has died, aged 55
When the prominent archaeologist Abdulamir Al-Hamdani died last Friday (29 April) shortly before his 55th birthday, the former Iraqi minister ...
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