Baghdad

intellectual in the Muslim societies and there are still these interpreted laws that are preventing them their freedom. These interpreted Islamic laws should be put into question and the ethical dimension of Islam should be heard and implemented. Baghdad poet spoke about the veil worn by Moslem Women. He gave a speech encouraging women to torn their veils due to the Moslem women being oppressed and he ended up in Prison. Miss Wood small made a comparison with other women’s movement going around…

Black Hearts is a narrative written by Jim Fredrick that covers the happenings of, Bravo Company 1-502nd Infantry 101st Airborne Division who were deployed to Iraq in 2005. The failure of their leadership is covered throughout and accounts for mistakes ranging from the general officer all the way to the privates on the ground. At the highest level, LT general Ricardo Sanchez failed to understand and acknowledge the severity and delicacy of the situation that his command group was about to enter…

Dispersed ethnic groups throughout history have experienced violence, repression, and have been denied human rights within the government they are residing. Due to the persecution, these groups search for ways to create their own nation and become independent. According to Joseph Stalin, for an ethnic group to become a nation they must be “a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up…

SEPTEMBER 11TH ATTACKS AND EFFECTS ON NEW YORK CITY On September 11th 2001, it was an average day for any “New Yorker”. As the honking of horns and sirens reverberated between buildings, people were accomplishment their typical morning commute routines. Subway stations and city sidewalks were crammed with commuters walking to work, and making their way towards large business complexes, tall skyscrapers and most notably the World Trade Center. These commuters did not know that in the next…

Translators are literary ambassadors. They bring foreign works to the audience of the target language. During the past semester, I have been working to translate part one of His Excellency, The Ambassador, by Ghazzi AlQussaibi, for its popularity among Arab readers around the world. Some critics claim that the novel is actually a true story of an Arab politician. This is because the author was a renowned political figure for most of his life, where it would be within reason to assume he had a…

The Iraqi prison twenty miles away from Baghdad Abu Ghraib is now infamous for maltreatment. It is unknown how many people the prison held. The vast majority of prisoners were civilians picked up by the military at traffic stops. They were undocumented in the prison or placed under an ambiguous category of "common criminals" or those suspected of "crimes against the coalition". Most were not meant to be in Abu Ghraib, but since many prisoners were undocumented, this went overlooked as did the…

2015, the Islamic State seized the Iraqi city of Ramadi. The loss of city and regional control will be a major setback to the United States’ effort to stop the spread of ISIS. With control over Ramadi, which is approximately 110 kilometers from Baghdad, ISIS is poised to continue its spread into the Iraqi heartland. In the eyes of the American public, responsibility will almost solely fall upon the President and his administration for failing to keep the city out of the control of ISIS…

The Army Design Methodology (ADM), developed as part of Army doctrine on the heels of failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, provides an approach for commanders and staffs to navigate the uncertainty and complexity associated with military operations. If properly understood and utilized, the ADM provides a vehicle for fostering an environment of creativity, problem solving, and adaption within an organization. Within the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A), ADM enables…

On June 28, 1919, the allied powers and Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles following WWI which required Germany to “accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage” and making them pay the equivalent of $442 billion USD today. Germany’s economy plummeted putting them in a great depression. So what did Germany do to have to accept responsibility for WWI? Compared to the other world powers involved, nothing. Although Germany diplomacy ultimately…

The intention of this essay is to investigate the Western relationship with colonisation, which shall be explored through Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004, THT) and Ella Hickson’s Oil (2016). Both texts raise questions about governance and colonisation in relation to environmental change through their use of character portrayal. Although neither text aims to provide an immediate solution they instead inform the reader and provoke thought on real issues whilst acknowledging that situations…