A true Iraqi is defined not by his
descent and origin, but by his love for Iraq, its
people, land and history
A Cultural Periodical Dedicated to
the Revival of National Identity
Published by the Center for Studies
on the Iraqi Nation
Editor: Salim Matar
Secretary: Nasrat
MARDAN
Translator: Marguerite Gavillet
Baghdad Bureau Manager: Tariq kamil
Advisory body
Amal Emily Porter
Ishtar Al Barazanji
Dr. Ali Thwany
Mohammad Mazlum
Amira Edan
Hussein Almozanu
Samira Almani
Dr.Fadil sodani
Mona saied Attahir
Priliminary Designer and photo selector: Salim
MATAR
Covers
designer : Karim Farhan
Corel designer: Meead Al-Nidawi
Communication adress:
You can follow the magazine issues at the
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Contents
- The love for the homeland and the
return to reality (Selim Matar / Geneva)
- Spring festival (Nawruz):
holiday of the Iraqi Nation (MESOPOTAMIA / Geneva)
- Regional and tribal bonds: their
role in the formation of modern Iraq: al-Anbar as an example (Majid Shubbar
/UK)
- Ta’ziya (Tashabih): Iraqi passion
play (Fadil Assoudani / Denmark)
- Calligraphy was born in Baghdad (Ibrahim
Azziyadi / Baghdad)
- Kirkuk cooking: symbol of unity
and diversity in the culture of society ( Tawfiq Altonchi / Denmark)
- I am Iraqi, my father is English (
Amal Porter / UK)
- Ahmad Hashim al-Allousy: an
eccentric Iraqi contributor to the founding of modern Turkish poetry ( Nasrat
Mardan / Geneva)
- Afifa Iskandar: the sad voice of
Iraq ( Muhammad Mazloum / Damascus)
- Sumerian, Akkadian and
Aramaic origins of some Iraqi
words ( Hossam Qaddouri Abed, Prof. in Al-Wasit University)
- The Turkoman language and computer
assisted translation (Salam Ibrahim Kubba / Baghdad)
- Christian convents in Iraq:
structures not to be destroyed by terror
(Rashid Al-Khayoun / UK)
- Al-Filia: Iraqis since thousands
of years ( Dr Ali Thwany / Sweden)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh in past and
contemporary Western culture ( Dr Admir Guriya, Syrian Prof. / US)
- Abu Nuwas and the other religions
( Dr Adnan Al-Zahir / Germany)
- Cultural, social and political
features of the city of Basrah from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights ( Dr
Muhammad Abdulrahman Younes, Syrian Prof.
Lattaqia)
- Woman in the poetry of Mullah
Abboud Al-Karkhi ( Youssouf Thwany Thamir / Sweden)
- Grand Imam Abu Hanifa Al-Noaman:
Honest and ascetic life (Hayfa Jassim / Missan)
- Imam Abu Al-Qassim Al-Khoe: an
Azerbaijani who belonged to Iraq ( Ahmad Uthman / Tallafa)
- Ahwaz: At a loss between Iraqihood
and Iranianhood (Sana Jassim Al-Kaabi / Al-Ahwaz)
- The call for non-violence in the
holy Koran (Muhammad Al-Husayni Al-Sherazi / Iran)
- Does Iraq need a new Mahatma? ( Isam Al-Baghdadi /
Thailand)
- The Uprising of 1948 in Iraq (Ishtar
Al-Barazanchy / Finland)
- The peaceful resistance is gaining
momentum among Palestinians (Dani Rubinstein / Israel – Palestine)
- The concept of non-violence in
modern History (Thierry Paquot / France)
- The new civil disobedience through
the web (Hisham Sulaiman)
- We do not want a new Afghanistan (Muhammad
Al-Rashidy / Amman)