By: Ahmed Abu Sultan/ Arab America Contributing Writer During the early middle ages, the Abbasid Islamic Dynasty was considered to be the controlling force of the world. The Abbasid Caliphate stretched from the Atlantic to the Caspian Sea. The end of the dynasty was witnessed at the hands of an unlikely foe, the Mongols. Their … Continued
By: Safa M. Qureshi/Arab America Contributing Writer In the eyes of many, the country of Iraq is seen to be nothing more than a place of turmoil, smoky battlefields, and Islamic extremism. Many foreigners have negative views about Iraq. While there are risks in visiting the country, we need … Continued
SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES BY: NABIH BULOS DUBAI — A piano plays a minor-key waltz as the slouching silhouette of Muhsin Khafaji, a disgraced detective, walks up a dilapidated alleyway. So opens “Baghdad Central,” a six-part police serial produced Britain’s Channel 4, with the Iraqi capital sometime after 2003 as its backdrop. Saddam is gone. In … Continued
Baghdad in the 1960s, Al Jumhoriyah Street, the Latin Church and the back of Caliph’s Mosque BY: Weam Namou/Ambassador Blogger They say that Baghdad means the “gift of God” in Persian. That definition reflects the memory I have of my birth country, not the news, which is saturated with accounts of prolific violence and a … Continued
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