tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27828162517638165182012-02-16T16:58:50.761-08:00Iraqi: one who identifies as Iraqi::Insight: an informed point of viewmonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13277005355693683793noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2782816251763816518.post-84585729241884969092008-07-09T17:11:00.000-07:002008-07-09T17:43:35.215-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;">Baghdad, 1957:<br />one year before the July 14 Revolution that ultimately changed the fate of the Iraqi nation-state.<br /><br />A Google search offers little more than Frank Lloyd Wright's queer orientalist vision of Baghdad:<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_32gJBYdDXaA/SHVYbajhFsI/AAAAAAAAAA4/S1wv9IcGxAA/s1600-h/flw.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_32gJBYdDXaA/SHVYbajhFsI/AAAAAAAAAA4/S1wv9IcGxAA/s320/flw.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221176571013961410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw_iraq.html">http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw_iraq.html<br /></a> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Here we have the very pristine perception and plans of a legendary American visionary for the future of Iraq's capital city at this pivotal moment. Disappointingly, Iraqis' own perceptions and plans for Iraq in this moment are not widely published on the web (in English).<br /><br />Offer your insights: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wh</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >at was Baghdad like in 1957?</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2782816251763816518-8458572924188496909?l=iraqinsights.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13277005355693683793noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2782816251763816518.post-52152226620819422852008-07-05T04:33:00.000-07:002008-07-05T04:44:19.153-07:00<span style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Mainstream U.S. Headlines from the past year:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;">"Walling off Baghdad areas raises fears sectarian splits will deepen"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;">"Iraqi official says Rice complained that Baghdad crackdown too sectarian"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;">"Gates Urges Iraq to Hasten Push to Defuse Sectarianism"</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >What is SECTARIANISM? How long has it existed in Baghdad? In Iraq?<br />Are these tensions real and deep? Are they superficial and imposed?<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2782816251763816518-5215222662081942285?l=iraqinsights.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13277005355693683793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2782816251763816518.post-43144306163885735182008-07-03T15:07:00.000-07:002008-07-03T15:56:14.671-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">I have an American passport and a Sunni name. It has been suggested to me not to dream of stepping a foot inside Baghdad for at least another fifty years. I haven't seen Baghad or Iraq since I was two years old.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Can...or should...or does the generation of young Iraqi ex-pats dare to dream of visiting Baghdad again? </span></span><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2782816251763816518-4314430616388573518?l=iraqinsights.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>monahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13277005355693683793noreply@blogger.com5