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First Lt. Rasha Al-Tayar, Baghdad’s only female police officer, sits at her desk in her office at a police station in Baghdad, Iraq on September 8, 2014. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Poster for the play, “N.” (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Iraqi play voices solidarity with displaced minorities
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi actors are expressing their solidarity with the country’s persecuted minority groups in a new play, titled N—or “Nun,” the initial letter of the Arabic word for Christians, Nasara, which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) painted...Caption:
Adnan Mohsen with his whistle. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Baghdad’s streets cheered by warbling traffic officer
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—More than forty years have passed since he first stood in the street directing the traffic, and locals’ affection for him continues to grow despite the fact he has the authority to enforce the law against them. That’s because Baghdad’s most...Caption:
Patrons enjoy Baghdad’s century-old Shabandar Café. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Baghdad’s historic coffeehouse tells the tales of a turbulent century
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—A coffeehouse that was damaged in a 2007 car bombing in Baghdad’s famed Al-Mutanabbi Street is still buzzing with intellectuals nearly a hundred years since it first opened its doors. Shabandar coffeehouse is located in the heart of...Caption:
File photo of statue of Abbasid-era poet Abu Tammam in Mosul before its destruction by ISIS. (Asharq Al-Awsat)