Baghdad

The Iraq War and how it has affected the Middle East Globalization is a force that affects almost every person on the planet in one way or another; weather it’s through trade and diplomacy or through cultural exchanges. Iraq has experienced a large increase in the amount of attention it has been receiving in past years as it struggles out of one war into another conflict. This attention has increased the amount of interaction Iraq has with the rest of the world and these interactions have left…

The official launch date of Operation Iraqi Freedom was in March 20th, 2003. In October of 2002, congress authorized the president to use force towards Iraqi to defend “the national security of the United States - improve security, establish a system of governance, and foster economic development”. The first most focused goal was to remove Saddam Hussein’s regime. An estimated 151,000 to 60,000 Iraqis were killed in the 3-4 years of conflict. The United States officially withdrew from the…

Reality. My reality, your reality, their reality. Whose reality is the correct reality? Fantastic literature has been discussed for many years. There are multiple elements that make “The Baghdad Clock” by Cristina Fernández Cubas fantastic. One element that is found throughout the story is the element of liminality. Liminality can be defined as “the state of being at the boundary of an important social category, in the process of crossing or transcending it, at a threshold between one state and…

In May 2003, I was a Staff Sergeant serving as a squad leader in a Military Police Company. We deployed to Baghdad Iraq in support of combat operations; I led a squad of 12 Soldiers. My squad’s primary mission was conducting mounted and dismounted patrols in a neighborhood called Al-Dura in the southern part of Baghdad. Soon after arriving in country and receiving our mission, all squad leaders reported to the Battalion Headquarters for introductions and assigning of interpreters to our…

As I searched the web to watch Live From Baghdad, I prepared myself for a boring and dry documentary. I had assumed this would be about current coverage of our Iraq War. The opening scene was a standard reenactment in my eyes, akin to America’s Most Wanted. It wasn’t until the faces of Michael Keaton and Paul Guilfoyle appeared on the screen that I realized I wasn’t watching a documentary at all. Live From Baghdad was an HBO feature film that documents the first Iraq War, and the coverage…

In the graphic novel, the Pride of Baghdad, animals were used to represent different types of Iraqis people. These animals were identified based on how they were depicted by Brain K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon. The author and illustrator of this novel used dark aggressive colors and tones to lead the audience towards a negative vibe in a character by how they formatted, styled, and characterized the characters in the pages of the novel. The page used to support this statement is the page of the…

monday.” I was happy and I told her, “ok so why you are sad.” She told me, “ because you will go alone.” I was very shocked. “she told don’t worry we will come about 7 months you have just 3 days to be ready.” I left Iraq in a cold night. I saw baghdad from the car window for the last time the tears was in my eyes. in that time everything I remember just flashed front of my eyes.…

Both Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian and Baghdad Without a Map by Tony Horwitz are memoirs written by people about the times in their lives when they experienced changes in their understandings of identity and heritage. In Black Dog of Fate, Balakian’s understanding of his Armenian heritage changes drastically throughout the novel. This change is shown through his conversations with family members and other fellow Armenians. In Baghdad Without a Map, Horwitz’s anecdotal stories about his…

WASHINGTON — In July, the Islamic State carried out one of the deadliest car bombings in Iraq since the American invasion in 2003, killing more than 300 people in Baghdad. The Pentagon responded by rushing a three-star general to the capital to offer the Iraqi authorities new technology, tactics and advisers to help thwart additional attacks. And in the weeks before the current Iraqi push to reclaim Mosul, the American-led air campaign against the militant group redoubled its strikes on car…

A. Was Baghdad the center of the Islamic realm during 754 CE? 1. During this time, al-Mansur wanted to relocate his power away from Damascus to start a new emergence. After a lengthy search, caliph al-Mansur, found a perfect region to build his capital, precisely beside the city of Baghdad. 2. The caliph had rather exceptional reasoning, his site ‘’…lay between Mesopotamia’s two great rivers at the juncture of the canals that linked them.’’ (WTWA 319). B. Caliph al-Mansur did not simply…