COVER STORY: Ah, the joys of back-formations: the social sciences, Bollywood and Urdu by Syed ...
Source: DAWN
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-11 22:12:46 -0700 | technology-news
the social sciences, Bollywood and Urdu by Syed Nomanul Haq Syed Nomanul Haq is a former scholar-in-residence at the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and is Advisor of the Social Sciences and Liberal Arts Program at the IBA Karachi.
Today in History
Source: The Boston Globe
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-12 09:26:49 -0700 | entertainment-news
On May 12, 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The two-week Trident Conference, headed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened in Washington.
Sh90m spent on fake detectors
Source: Daily Nation
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-11 14:18:43 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary Passing judgment on the 56-year-old fraudster James McCormick, Judge Richard Hone was scathing in his criticism of the con artist. Kenyan police are on the spot after a fraudster who sold fake bomb detectors worth Sh7.1 billion...
Suicide bomber targets senior Iraq intel officer
Source: The Daily Star
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-11 10:49:06 -0700 | travel-news
An Iraqi policeman checks a vehicle using a explosive detecting device at a checkpoint in the al-Jadriyah district of Baghdad on May 3, 2013. Iraq: A suicide bomber targeted the home of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer north of Baghdad...
Kurdish bloc offers mediation between Government, demonstrators
Source: Zawya Political
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-10 08:58:14 -0700 | political-news
Thursday, 09 May 2013 Baghdad (AIN) -Taghyeer Kurdish bloc, headed by Nechirvan Mustafa, offered to mediate between the Government and the demonstrators to settle the crisis between them. MP, Lateef Mustafa, of Taghyeer bloc stated to AIN "We accept to...
Officials: Bomb kills 3 Sunni worshippers in Iraq
Source: The Daily Star
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-10 08:51:57 -0700 | travel-news
Iraqi security forces personnel and residents gather at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, May 8, 2013. Iraqi officials say a bomb explosion near a Sunni mosque near Baghdad has killed three worshippers...
Theater review: Fresno State's 'Arabian Nights' beautiful to behold
Source: The Fresno Bee
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-10 02:04:43 -0700 | entertainment-news
tool goes here The mysterious visitor appears from the desert like a mirage come to life. She is named Sympathy the Learned, the most educated person in the world, and she's come here to the court of the king to...
Iraq rejects refuge for Turkey's Kurdish fighters
Source: Boston.com
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-09 08:18:32 -0700 | travel-news
Iraq on Thursday rejected a key element of an accord to bring an end to a long Kurdish uprising in Turkey offering refuge to rebel fighters in country's north. In March, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, announced a deal...
Iraq to rebuild rail system as reconstruction...
Source: Arab News
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-08 13:27:24 -0700 | political-news
In a shabby, rusty train that had just left Baghdad for the southern city of Basra, Riyadh Saleh moved restlessly from carriage to carriage, searching for a comfortable, air-conditioned seat. Saleh was one of about 200 passengers taking a 25-year-old...
A series of terrorist attacks in Iraq: 4 killed, dozens injured
Posted by: rsa76
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-10 10:08:26 -0700 | disasters-news
A series of terrorist attacks in Iraq claimed the lives of four people, 50 injured According to the National Iraqi News Agency, two car bombs, were blown up in the province of Kirkuk in the north. The first explosion occurred...
Sunnis in Iraq Protest Antiterror Tactics That Hurt Innocents
Source: Newyork Times
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-07 18:09:30 -0700 | travel-news
Iraq's Worsening Sunni Protests Revolve Around Antiterrorism Tactics Bilal Fawzi/Associated Press Sunnis protesting against the government last week in Falluja, Iraq...The Sunni protest movement here is turning increasingly violent, freshening memories of the brutal sectarian conflict...
The Many Sacrifices of Captain Van Thach
Source: Village Voice
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-07 17:07:32 -0700 | travel-news
As told to Jonathan Wei I went into the Army Reserves in 1994, my freshman year at St...My initial commitment was four years active duty, and another four years, reserves. Six months prior to my graduation and my commission, I...
Survivor of Baghdad fratricide saw gunman's boots and knew "it's one of our people"
Source: The News Tribune
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-07 13:32:05 -0700 | political-news
Dominic Morales still hears an evil chuckle in his nightmares...John Russell emitted just before he shot another helpless, unarmed soldier in the face inside a Baghdad combat stress clinic four years ago...He was just a sitting duck, Morales testified today...
Iraq announces new armed faction's engagement in reconciliation project
Source: Zawya Political
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-07 09:34:21 -0700 | political-news
Iraqi government revealed on Monday, the engagement of new armed factions in the national reconciliation project, indicating that the factions asked not to declare their involvement in media. "The new armed factions have been engaged recently in the national reconciliation...
Iraq-Kurd oil talks break ice, long-term fix unlikely
Source: Reuters
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-07 11:47:54 -0700 | political-news
Topics Tanker trucks wait to be loaded at Taq Taq oil field in Arbil at the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, about 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad, September, 5, 2012. A lasting solution to Iraq's dispute with...
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