From the very beginning of the U.S. intervention in Iraq and the effort to build some kind of democracy there, a simple but gnawing question has lurked in the background: Was Iraq the way Iraq was (a ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, April 3 (UNHCR) - As the Iraq crisis enters its sixth year, the UN refugee agency has been highlighting the culture and artistic talents of the Iraqi people during a weeklong festival ...

Years of war and insurgency have taken a heavy toll on Iraq's many cultural treasures — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Wandering Baghdad's legendary book street, recently renovated, the UN's cultural chief pledged ...

Lillie Taimoorazy (center) stands with dancers from the Shameeram Folkloric Group she founded to share the art and history of the Assyrians. In times of hardship, war, genocide or displacement, women ...

Iraq has long been known as the most corrupt Arab state in the region and Allawi explained why, Prime minister faces a culture of corruption that involves numerous organized groups, especially in the ...

Eight Iraqi doctors and an Iraqi journalist are traveling around Minnesota to increase cultural understanding between Iraq and U.S. citizens. The Iraqi doctors shared what it's like living through war ...

ThatIraqi Artists in Exile, at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, serves up a scathing view of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. But the exhibit goes ...

Residents of the marshes in Iraq gather inside a mudhif, which is a community center made out of reeds. A similar structure will be built in Houston as part of the Marsh Arabs Project. (Photo from ...

Deborah Amos reports on the new craze in Iraq: plastic surgery. Well-off Iraqis are seeing Western-style pop music videos featuring thin women with small noses and deciding to go under the knife. To ...

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