by Afrah Shawqi | Nov 29, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi Ministry of Culture is preparing for the inauguration of a new exhibition hall in Baghdad that will display a unique collection of Iraqi modern art after years of painstaking work to salvage what remains of the work of some of the...
by Afrah Shawqi | Nov 18, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The National Heritage Museum in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is reopening after having been closed for 10 years following its being looted during the US-led invasion and fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat,...
by Afrah Shawqi | Oct 22, 2014 | Media
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Political and media figures welcomed the return of Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper to Iraq’s newsstands on Tuesday after a 10 month absence. A Baghdad newsstand owner, Abu Zaina, said he was happy to see the return of the pan-Arab daily to Iraq; he...
by Afrah Shawqi | Oct 21, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Despite severe violence and unrest in Iraq and widespread rumors that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is approaching the outskirts of its capital, the 6th Baghdad International Film Festival went ahead as planned last week. Out of...
by Afrah Shawqi | Oct 18, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The family of Mohamed Aref, a young man from Mosul, did not hesitate to organize their son’s wedding in a school in Baghdad. They had taken shelter in the school together with large groups of internally displaced people who escaped the...
