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ِA floral display at the Baghdad International Flower Festival (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Baghdad Flower Power

by Afrah Shawqi | Apr 15, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Flowers are perhaps not the first thing you think of when you think of Baghdad, but for the last five years Iraq’s capital has been hosting an international flower festival which this year has drawn participants from 11 countries and 70...

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Iraqi women wait behind a window to receive their electronic voter ID cards in the capital Baghdad on February 25, 2014, ahead of legislative elections in April. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iraq: Nearly 3,000 female candidates expected in parliament elections

by Afrah Shawqi | Mar 8, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Campaigning for the Iraqi parliamentary elections, scheduled for April 30, will begin in just a few days. This election is seeing the widest participation by women to date—there are almost 3,000 female candidates, all of whom are promising...

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Iraqi musicians and artists demonstrating against the practices of the Department of Musical Art in Baghdad. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Iraqi musicians, singers and intellectuals launch Iraqi music uprising

by Afrah Shawqi | Aug 23, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Arab Spring has reached the shores of Iraq’s cultural scene, awakening musicians from the state of slumber the Musical Arts Department had imposed on them. Iraqi artists recently decried what they called the “dictatorial, arbitrary and...