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Iraq's most serious problem right now may be "Izdiham" - the Arabic word that can mean crowds of people or cars, but which also implies that movement is impossible. "Izdiham!" protest the drivers of patched-together taxis by way of explanation for their refusal to go to your destination or...
On Baghdad's Outer Karada street, immense satellite dishes sell like bread - as the Arabic expression goes - demonstrating a hunger for information that has also prompted a booming market for local and international newspapers. Baghdad may be the world's only city of more than 5 million inhabitants without a...
This isn't how Lahib Nouman's life was supposed to turn out. Her father was a wealthy dealer in engineering tools. The Noumans lived in the then tony district of Saadun and sent their 13 children to the city's best schools, where they learned Arabic, French and English...
The walls of Lahib Nouman's home don't just talk, they howl. They scream in terror, shout with rage, moan in pain and sob with frustration. All the emotions overloading this tiny woman's brutalized mind she projects onto the walls of her living room. She scrawls on them...
His chubby frame draped in black robes and turban, he maintained a permanent scowl throughout the press conference as if to add gravity to his words, delivered with a lisp in colloquial Arabic peppered with street slang, rather than in eloquent classical Arabic more common among Shiite scholars and clerics...