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</div> </form> </div> </div> <hr/> <div id="content" class="span-13 append-1"> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13699"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/18/iraqi-youth-orchestra-combats-terror-with-beethoven-monsters-and-critics/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqi youth orchestra combats terror with Beethoven – Monsters and Critics">No Comments</a></span> Posted on September 18th, 2011 by Harith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/18/iraqi-youth-orchestra-combats-terror-with-beethoven-monsters-and-critics/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraqi youth orchestra combats terror with Beethoven – Monsters and Critics">Iraqi youth orchestra combats terror with Beethoven – Monsters and Critics</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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created on the lines of Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim’s Arab-Jewish West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and comprising Kurds, Arabs, Shiites, Sunnis and Christians – is ready to try. </p> <p>Car bombs, persecution of Christians and corruption are part of everyday life in Iraq, but the new orchestra wants to make a musical contribution toward forging a different kind of future. </p> <p>The orchestra, which will give its first guest performance at a Beethoven festival in the German city of Bonn on October 1, is to unite young musicians from different and usually divided ethnic and religious backgrounds. </p> <p>The founding members of the orchestra, created with British support by a young Iraqi pianist in 2009, include Tuka Saad Dschafar. </p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/18/iraqi-youth-orchestra-combats-terror-with-beethoven-monsters-and-critics/#more-13699" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the 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States were tragedy, but we (Iraqis) are the people who pay the bill of such tragedy," Mahir Abbas, 53, a journalist in the Iraqi capital Baghdad told Xinhua.</p> <p>"Hundreds of thousands of my people were killed either by the military operations that turned my country’s cities into war zones, or by the various militant groups that fought the Americans as well as each other in the once safe neighborhoods," Abbas said, referring to his once volatile and mainly Sunni neighborhood of Ameriyah in western Baghdad.</p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/12/feature-iraqis-pay-the-bill-of-911-every-day/#more-13674" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13618"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/04/xinhua-iraqi-public-differ-over-planned-u-s-pullout/#respond" title="Comment on Xinhua: Iraqi public differ over planned U.S. pullout">No Comments</a></span> Posted on July 4th, 2011 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/04/xinhua-iraqi-public-differ-over-planned-u-s-pullout/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Xinhua: Iraqi public differ over planned U.S. pullout">Xinhua: Iraqi public differ over planned U.S. pullout</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/occupation/" rel="tag">occupation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/peshmerga/" rel="tag">Peshmerga</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/religion/" rel="tag">Religion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/resistance/" rel="tag">Resistance</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadr-city/" rel="tag">Sadr City</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi-arabia/" rel="tag">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syria/" rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/turkey/" rel="tag">Turkey</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violence/" rel="tag">violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/xinhua/" rel="tag">Xinhua</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/xinhua-reports/" rel="tag">xinhua reports</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Little less than six months away from a scheduled U.S. troops’ withdrawal, Iraqi public cannot wait to see the occupiers leave and their national sovereignty restored. Yet unwillingly they expect a continued U.S. presence as few believe the Americans will leave such a deeply-invested and strategically-important place. </p> <p>For Iraqis, the debate on U.S. troops’ departure is intertwined with national dignity, security uncertainty and wariness of its coveting neighbors. Some doubt Iraqi security forces have the capability to curb insurgents and defend the country on their own while others fear a residual American force could sanction continued violence by militias. </p> <p>Quite a few worry neighboring countries will swoop in and exploit the vacuum left by the U.S. whereas a considerable number think the U.S. will manipulate the fragile government behind scenes even if they draw down their troops. </p> <h3>"DON’T EVER THINK U.S. WILL LEAVE EASILY" </h3> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/04/xinhua-iraqi-public-differ-over-planned-u-s-pullout/#more-13618" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13326"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b2%d8%ad%d9%81-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a2%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b7%d8%b4-%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%af%d8%af-%d8%a8%d8%b3/#respond" title="Comment on الزحف العمراني والآفات والعطش تهدد بساتين النخيل العراقية">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Hussein Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b2%d8%ad%d9%81-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a2%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b7%d8%b4-%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%af%d8%af-%d8%a8%d8%b3/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to الزحف العمراني والآفات والعطش تهدد بساتين النخيل العراقية">الزحف العمراني والآفات والعطش تهدد بساتين النخيل العراقية</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/agriculture/" rel="tag">Agriculture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/agriculture-decline-of/" rel="tag">Agriculture decline of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/date-harvests/" rel="tag">Date Harvests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dates/" rel="tag">Dates</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%84%d8%a9/" rel="tag">مدينة الحلة</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%88%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9/" rel="tag">المحمودية</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%84/" rel="tag">بابل</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: right; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: rtl"> <p><a title="20110511_dateharvest_01 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5711244566/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 10px 0px 5px 20px; display: inline; float: right" alt="20110511_dateharvest_01" align="right" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751im_/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/5711244566_ec34846320_o.jpg" width="300" height="520"/></a>مع تساقط زخات المطر بين شهري تشرين الأول وتشرين الثاني في وسط وجنوب العراق ، تكون التمور قد أينعت وتساقطت بتأثير حرارة الشمس ، حينها تعلو الابتسامة على وجه الفلاح الذي يكون قد سعد بمردود جهده. </p> <p>وعلى رغم ان السنوات القليلة الماضية شهدت أنتاجا ضعيفاً من التمور ، بسبب الملوحة وندرة المياه الا ان الموسم الحالي يبشر عن نتائج افضل مع تحسن وسائل الري وتوفر الكهرباء بقدر اكبر . </p> <p>وتتوزع في محافظات العراق المختلفة لاسيما البصرة والحلة وكربلاء أصنافا من النخيل يقدر عددها ب 650 صنفاً . ويمتلك العراق اليوم 11 مليون نخلة وتسعى وزارة الزراعة إلى الوصول إلى 30 مليون نخلة خلال السنوات العشر المقبلة.</p> <p>يقول المهندس الزراعي فوزي تركي ان أعداد النخيل تراجعت في العراق الى أقل من ثلاثة ملايين بعد عام 2003، لكن هناك وعيا بضرورة البدء بحملات شعبية لزراعة النخيل ، لكن هذا الوعي لم يرافقه التطبيق الميداني.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b2%d8%ad%d9%81-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a2%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b7%d8%b4-%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%af%d8%af-%d8%a8%d8%b3/#more-13326" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13154"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/27/iraq-fresh-effort-to-trace-missing-persons/#respond" title="Comment on IRAQ: Fresh effort to trace missing persons">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/27/iraq-fresh-effort-to-trace-missing-persons/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to IRAQ: Fresh effort to trace missing persons">IRAQ: Fresh effort to trace missing persons</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/disappearances/" rel="tag">disappearances</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/irin/" rel="tag">IRIN</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/missing-persons/" rel="tag">missing persons</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>The government has set up a committee to trace thousands of Iraqis missing since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, says an official. <br/>“Our definition of missing people are those who disappeared in military operations, terrorist attacks or those who are reported kidnapped but have not appeared yet,” Maj. Farouk Al-Araji, office manager of the Chief Commander of Iraq’s Military Command, told a news conference in Baghdad on 25 April. <br/>“The families have to submit the documents that prove the incident [that led to their disappearance] is registered in the police records, a picture of the missing [person] and phone number to the offices of security forces in all provinces starting from May 2,” Al-Araji added. <br/>The families will have 15 days to submit all the required documents, he added. <br/>The government committee includes representatives from the ministries of defence, interior, national security, health, justice and human rights, in addition to intelligence services and anti-terrorism forces. <br/>According to the human rights ministry, 14,025 people have been registered missing since 2003 and only seven have been found yet in morgues. Kamil Arkan, the ministry’s representative on the committee, said the number is believed to be higher because many cases went unreported. <br/>Following the 2003 invasion, Iraq suffered years of bloody violence that started with militant attacks against Iraqi and US-led forces, government employees and people working with western companies and organizations. <br/>The violence reached its climax after the February 2006 bombing of a Shia shrine by Sunni extremists, which locked the country in tit-for-tat sectarian killings between the two main Muslim sects. <br/>The security situation started improving in 2008 as Iraqi security forces backed by US forces launched a nationwide crackdown against Sunni and Shia militants alike. <br/>After that, relatives started placing pictures of the missing in daily newspapers and television programmes in an effort to locate them.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=92594" class="external" target="_blank">IRIN Middle East | IRAQ: Fresh effort to trace missing persons | Iraq | Conflict | Human Rights | Security</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12863"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/27/way-of-life-in-danger-as-iraq-fisherman-quit-sea/#respond" title="Comment on Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 27th, 2011 by Suheila Jamil</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/27/way-of-life-in-danger-as-iraq-fisherman-quit-sea/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea">Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fao/" rel="tag">Fao</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/faw/" rel="tag">Faw</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fishermen/" rel="tag">fishermen</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fishing-industry/" rel="tag">fishing industry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fishing-industry-decline-of/" rel="tag">fishing industry -decline of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraki-kuwaiti-relations/" rel="tag">Iraki / Kuwaiti relations</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran-iraq-war/" rel="tag">Iran-Iraq War</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kuwait/" rel="tag">kuwait</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/qurnah/" rel="tag">Qurnah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reuters/" rel="tag">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shat-al-arab/" rel="tag">Shat al-Arab</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-with-kuwait/" rel="tag">War with Kuwait</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote><p>Since time immemorial, villagers on Iraq’s Faw peninsula have fished the waters where the Tigris and Euphrates reach the Gulf. But today, they say violent sea border disputes are forcing them off their boats.</p> <p>The town of Faw near Iraq’s coast has around 40,000 inhabitants, most of them fishermen and their families. Town officials say hundreds of families have left in search of other work, leaving the port in danger of becoming a ghost town.</p> <p>Fishermen complain of rises in the cost of fuel and oil shortages. But mostly they worry about confrontation with Iranian and Kuwaiti coast guards.</p> <p>"They jabbed one of our guys with a knife and bound him with ropes and dunked him in and out of the water like torture. His only crime was that he was a fisherman," said Issa Abdul-Wahid, 43, describing a recent incident with a Kuwaiti patrol.</p> <p>"They tell us ‘You do not have waters. Your borders are the mud.’ But these are our waters," he said.</p> <p>Once the owner of his own boat, Abdul-Wahid said Kuwaitis confiscated his vessel and held it for six months before returning it stripped of equipment. Too poor to refurbish it, he has been reduced to working as a labourer on other men’s boats.</p> <p>"We have no other livelihood but fishing, but our suffering is huge… I have a family to feed. What have we done to deserve this, a government that can’t protect us?"</p> <p>Ali Al-Kanaani, head of the Faw city council, said there were once 2,000 fishing boats operating from the town, but now there are just 400-500. Each boat has a pilot and 10 crew. With each fisherman usually supporting a large family, 100 people could depend for their livelihoods on a single boat.</p> <p>Iraq has only narrowest access to the sea. Its Faw peninsula is surrounded by a 50km stretch of sea coast facing Kuwait on one side, and by the wide Shatt al-Arab waterway overlooking the marshes of southern Iran on the other.</p> <p>The Shatt al-Arab is formed where the Tigris and the Euphrates merge at Qurna, a town some believe to be the site of the biblical Garden of Eden. It runs 184km to the Gulf. An invisible line down much of its length serves as the border between Iran and Iraq.</p> <p>Control of the waterway was one of the main reasons for the costly and bitter war between Iran and Iraq that lasted through most of the 1980s. The boundary dispute is still not settled.</p> <p>Kuwait and Iraq have also yet to define a sea border in settlement talks since Iraq’s 1990 invasion. Many at the docks say Iraqis are viewed with hostility by Iranians and Kuwaitis still bitter over Iraq’s wars against them.</p> <p>In January, a Kuwaiti coastguard was killed and five Iraqi fishermen were wounded in a shootout with Iraqi sailors. Kuwait says the clash erupted when an Iraqi boat entered Kuwaiti waters and refused orders from a coast guard patrol to stop.</p> <p>Faw’s mayor said the incident took place in Iraqi waters.</p> <p>In December 2010, Iranian coast guards detained 12 Iraqi fishermen who they say illegally entered Iran’s waters. Three of them were later freed.</p> <p>Like his father and grandfather before him, Khalef Yousif became a fisherman in his teens, learning the old techniques of casting a net from an metal-hulled boat, hauling in catches of silver pomfret, grouper and shrimp.</p> <p>After nearly two decades at sea, he abandoned the life a year and a half ago and moved with his wife and three children from the port of Faw to a small plot 90km north.</p> <p>He has become a farmer, planting cucumbers and tomatoes on land he was able to buy for a pittance because so many other families are moving out of the area, even further north.</p> <p>"The fishing business is not good anymore. Kuwaitis were harassing us wherever we go," he said, sitting near his shack.</p> <p>Waleed al-Sharifi, Faw’s mayor, said the entire fishing industry may soon vanish altogether. Once, fishermen were protected by Iraq’s navy, but the force has yet to be fully rebuilt since the US invasion in 2003.</p> <p>"Unfortunately the Iraqi officials always put the blame on the Iraqi fishermen," he said. "The fishing career is threatened with extinction for many reasons. I would say if the situation stays as it is, the career will become extinct and without it, Faw will be empty of people." </p> </blockquote> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://www.arabianbusiness.com/way-of-life-in-danger-as-iraq-fisherman-quit-sea-390077.html" class="external" target="_blank">Way of life in danger as Iraq fisherman quit sea – Culture & Society – ArabianBusiness.com</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12767"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/18/iranian-kurdish-women-face-lonely-unmarried-life-in-kurdistan/#respond" title="Comment on Iranian Kurdish Women Face Lonely Unmarried Life In Kurdistan">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Burhan Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/18/iranian-kurdish-women-face-lonely-unmarried-life-in-kurdistan/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iranian Kurdish Women Face Lonely Unmarried Life In Kurdistan">Iranian Kurdish Women Face Lonely Unmarried Life In Kurdistan</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/women/" title="View all posts in Women and Children" rel="category tag">Women and Children</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/altash-refugee-camp/" rel="tag">Altash Refugee Camp</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arbil/" rel="tag">Arbil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/erbil/" rel="tag">Erbil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran/" rel="tag">Iran</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iranian-refugees/" rel="tag">Iranian Refugees</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kawa-refugee-camp/" rel="tag">Kawa Refugee Camp</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/krg/" rel="tag">KRG</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/refugees/" rel="tag">Refugees</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: Eran Muhammad is a 25-year-old Kurdish refugee from Iran, living in Kawa Refugee Camp in Qushtapa district, just out of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. She cannot get an Iraqi identification or citizenship card, and, since the marriage courts legally require them, she cannot get married.</p> <p>“I am afraid to get married without a legal contract, because then anyone can divorce me at their whim,” said Ms Muhammad.</p> <p> <a title="20110318_refugee_women_at_Kawa by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5537296450/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 5px 10px" height="198" alt="20110318_refugee_women_at_Kawa" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5537296450_e31e826876_o.jpg" width="350" align="right"/></a> <p>Many other girls like her in the camp are worried for the same reason. If they were divorced, they would be unable to ask for their legal rights, since they would not have a legal marriage contract to protect them.</p> <p>“There are 90 girls here who are over 25 and are afraid to get married because we can’t get a legal contract,” said Ms Muhammad. “Many of those who have traditional marriages without going to the courts get divorced in a short time.”</p> <p>Many of the camp’s families came to Iraq after the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and were consigned to Altash Refugee Camp in Iraq’s Ramadi city. But, after the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, many armed groups assaulted the camps, so they took refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan.</p> <p>Many of the 90 young Kawa Camp women, who are longing for marriage, were born in Iraq and, since they do not even have Iranian identification cards, are technically without citizenship anywhere.  </p> <p>These women are now calling out to women’s rights groups and governmental organizations to help them find a solution. There was an evident mood of desperation among the young women that Rudaw spoke with at the camp, because of this dilemma that prevents them from having a family of their own.</p> <p>Many families have five or more unmarried daughters</p> <p>According to the statistics on Kawa Camp that Rudaw obtained from the Refugee Council in Erbil, 1,364 refugees reside in the camp, of which 650 are male and 714 are female. Of the unmarried women, 90 are over 20 years of age, and 15 are over 40. </p> <p>It is not uncommon to find families in the camp with five or more unmarried daughters of marriageable age, and the families say they are very worried that this phenomenon may soon create social problems for the young women.</p> <p>Muhammad Bawajani is an imam in the camp, also with five unmarried daughters.</p> <p>“Many individuals from our camp have asked for the hands of my daughters, but I am afraid to agree to such marriages, because my daughters can’t get a legal contract from the courts,” said Bawajani. “Many girls here who get married without a legal contract get divorced soon after.”</p> <p>The camp’s women, along with its other residents, have residency permission cards that are only valid in Erbil, and they say the cards do not allow them to carry out official procedures.</p> <p>“We cannot have legal marriage contracts with these residency permission cards,” said Ms Muhammad, “So our men are migrating overseas, and our women are left here unmarried.” </p> <p>Bawajani referred to a verse from the Quran, which states that hampering the marriage of females is a sin, and also quoted from a Kurdish proverb to support his complaints.</p> <p>“‘If you keep fresh water in a place longer than it should be kept there, it will go bad,’ and the same will happen to our daughters,” he said, referring to the proverb.</p> <p><strong>Women’s rights groups are ineffective</strong></p> <p>The women from Kawa Camp criticize women’s rights activists for overlooking their case and claim that the activists only deal with the issues of urban women and do not care about them. </p> <p>“They never place any importance on us,” said Ms Muhammad.</p> <p>However, Chilura Hardi, head of the Khatuzin Center, a non-governmental women’s issues organization, rejected these claims and said her organization had visited and talked with the refugees in Kawa Camp.</p> <p>“We have asked them many times if they have problems or requests; they never said anything,” said Ms Hardi. “So how can we help them if we don’t know what their problems are?”</p> <p>Another young Kurdish woman living at the camp, 22-year-old Layla Jhuma from Iran’s Kirmashan city, paints a bleak picture of life in the camp for a young unmarried woman.</p> <p>“There are no [single] men left in this camp, and [single] women have to stay with their parents,” she said. “We stay home day and night with nowhere to go. Not having a legal I.D. card makes it impossible for us to get married to Iraqi Kurds, and many men from our camp cannot afford to get married because of poverty and lack of living space.” </p> <p>Ms Jhuma has five sisters, all of marriageable age, and all as yet unmarried. But, her parents say they still hope to see all their daughters have husbands and their own families before they pass away. </p> <p>“The young men who live here have no place or work,” said Kafiya, Ms Jhuma’s mother. “Each family is given only two rooms, so where should they bring their wives if they want to get married? Our neighbor divorced his wife after two months of marriage because they did not have enough room, and we are not going to abandon our daughters on the street.” </p> <p><strong>The government insists they can get married</strong></p> <p>However, Abdul Basit Farhadi, spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s Judicial Council, rejects the claim that women from the camp are unable to have legal marriages using their residency permits. He said any Kurdistan identification card would enable them to be legally married in the courts, as long as they obtained official authorization.</p> <p>“We give them an official letter, which they can take to the Ministry of Interior for authorization. If [the ministry] agrees, we can give them a legal marriage contract,” said Farhadi. “With [the ministry’s] authorization, these Iranian girls would be able to get married to men from Iraq or from their camp.”</p> <p>But, this is no comfort to Ms Jhuma, who, during the interview with Rudaw, sat next to her mother and her five unmarried, home-bound sisters.</p> <p>“We have lost hope in life,” she said. “Our father cannot work because of chronic illness, and we, his six daughters, have become a burden to him. We are so poor and prices are so high that only two of us could go to school. If it goes on like this, we will all grow grey while still living at our parents’ house.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://www.rudaw.net/english/culture_art/3509.html" class="external" target="_blank">Rudaw in English | Iranian Kurdish Women Face Lonely Unmarried Life In Kurdistan</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12694"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/09/this-work-is-too-hard-and-business-is-not-good-anymore/#respond" title="Comment on This work is too hard, and business is not good anymore">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 9th, 2011 by Khaled</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/09/this-work-is-too-hard-and-business-is-not-good-anymore/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to This work is too hard, and business is not good anymore">This work is too hard, and business is not good anymore</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abaya/" rel="tag">Abaya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/clothing-industry/" rel="tag">Clothing industry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/industrial-decline/" rel="tag">industrial decline</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/najaf/" rel="tag">Najaf</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/protectionist-policies/" rel="tag">protectionist policies</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/traditional-industries-decline-of/" rel="tag">traditional industries - decline of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/weavers/" rel="tag">weavers</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Known across the region for its fine texture, the Najafi abaya is worn by all manner of VIPs from officials to oil-rich sheikhs. But the men who produce the hand-made cloth, inheritors of a generations-old trade, are increasingly going out of business. </p> <p>“Let me tell you something,” said Kadhim, laughing bitterly while embroidering one of the full-length cloaks, spread across his lap. “If I could find a government job, I would stop all this. </p> <p>“This work is too hard, and business is not good anymore.” </p> <p>The bazaar where Kadhim has his shop, at the entrance to the shrine to Imam Ali, revered among Shias, was once dominated by makers of this traditional garb. Now many stalls sell trinkets, toys and other forms of clothing to pilgrims from mainly Shia Muslim Iran, as the tradition of hand-made abayas – those designed and sold in Najaf are only for men – has seen a dramatic decline in recent years. </p> <p>The 41-year-old Kadhim, whose family has been in the business so long that he takes the last name Abu Chengal or “father of the crochet hook”, does not know if he can hang on much longer. “My sales of the summer abaya are down to around a fifth of what they were 10 years ago – I used to sell hundreds but now I sell dozens,” he moaned. </p> <p>The 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussain unleashed a number of changes, from ending the UN trade embargo on Iraq and lifting the country’s own protectionist policies to pushing up the value of the Iraqi dinar. </p> <p>The unrest itself caused a sudden drop in demand for abaya, as fewer customers dared venture to Najaf. And for what orders remained, traditional abaya weavers and tailors found themselves dramatically undercut, prompting many to scramble for secure government jobs. </p> <p>The new competition came not only from imported textiles, now flooding the market alongside other imported goods, but from improvements in abaya cloth produced in domestic factories and much cheaper than its hand-made counterpart. </p> <p>While an embroidered hand-made abaya sells in Najaf’s market for between 500,000 and 800,000 Iraqi dinars ($425-$675), factory-made or imported ones can be bought for as little as 75,000 dinars ($65). “When I quit a few years ago, I was selling each abaya cloth for 120,000 to 150,000 dinars ($100-$125),” lamented Hussein Sayed, a weaver who left the trade in 2005. </p> <p>The hand-made item is labour intensive, he pointed out, taking one worker three to 10 days to weave cloth for one abaya, even before it is embroidered. </p> <p>Meanwhile, “you could buy a piece of cloth for an abaya for 20,000 dinars ($17) – that price was too low, I could not compete,” said Sayed. “As soon as international trade began, our jobs were finished.” Four of his six sons learned the craft but are now taxi drivers. </p> <p>Razzaq Mohamed, 58, told a similar story – he dropped weaving to open a general store in 2006 when the craft no longer generated sufficient income. “It was all we did, my family has done this for more than 100 years – I opened my eyes at birth, and my family was making abayas this way,” he said, standing by three looms kept in a separate room of his home. “The sheikhs, the VIPs, they still want hand-made Najafi abayas. But the work is not continuous, it is not dependable.” </p> <p>His son Ahmed, 31, still practices the craft, painstakingly un-knotting yarn made from sheep wool, warping the loom and weaving abaya panels on the old frame with its series of weights and pulleys affixed to the wall and ceiling. </p> <p>But the amount of work on offer is not enough. “I will leave all this if I find another job that covers the needs of my family,” Ahmed said. </p> <p>A major boost in the Iraqi dinar made the Najafi abaya less attractive to overseas customers – whereas $1 bought around 3,000 dinars prior to the 2003 invasion, it now gets only 1,180 dinars. </p> <p>And a change in Najaf’s own clientele has added to the impact. </p> <p>Before the invasion, Saddam allowed only a few hundred pilgrims into Iraq on a daily basis to visit holy Shia shrines. </p> <p>Their number has now jumped to an estimated 3,500 every day, the vast majority Iranian, causing many bazaar merchants to rethink their products. </p> <p>“It used to be all about abayas, but now we sell gifts for tourists,” said Yusuf Mohamed Ali, a former tailor who switched to peddling scarves, rings and prayer beads. </p> <p>Hassan Issa al-Hakim, who teaches Islamic history at Kufa University in Najaf’s twin city, said the industry dates back more than 150 years and the Najafi abaya “represents the identity of the city”. </p> <p>“It was a gift that would be given to political and religious leaders who visited, and it used to be exported across the region,” the 69-year-old said. </p> <p>Even now, “there are those who make amazing hand-made abayas but they all depend on requests from clients.” </p> <p>Back in the “abaya market”, as it is still called, Kadhim sat alongside his friend Ahmed al-Ghazali, both life-long abaya tailors. “Look here,” Kadhim said waving into the bazaar. “All of this used to be for selling abayas. Not anymore. People have moved on.”</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=420857&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17" class="external" target="_blank">Najaf abaya makers rue decline in current times</a> | Gulf Times – Qatar</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12446"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/02/23/%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%84-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%83%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%ae-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%af%d8%ae%d9%84-%d9%8a%d9%88/#respond" title="Comment on عوائل عراقية تعيش في الاكواخ على دخل يومي لا يتجاوز 4 دولارات: نحن بلا امل">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 23rd, 2011 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/poverty/" rel="tag">Poverty</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>تعيش فليحة حسن في منزل صغير في وسط بغداد مع 11 من افراد عائلتها وهي مثل آلاف من المحتجين الاخرين في العراق لا تعتقد ان قادتها السياسيين يبذلون اي جهد لتحسين حياتها، في وقت ذكر خبراء دوليون ان البلاد تعاني ضعف كفاءة المسؤولين التي تعني ان القضاء على المشاكل وإصلاح الادارة يتطلب وقتا اطول مما ينبغي.</p> <p>وتقول فليحة (67 عاما) وهي جالسة على الارض محاطة بأحفادها في المنزل الذي تقطن فيه منذ عقدين «السياسيون والمسؤولون والقيادات لا يهتمون بنا، لديهم الكثير من المال ولا يكترثون لغيرهم».</p> <p>والمشكلات التي تعاني منها فليحة حسن واولادها واحفادها مستمرة في العراق منذ سقوط النظام في 2003.</p> <p>وابنها وسام هو المصدر الوحيد لكسب الرزق في هذه العائلة، من خلال بيع الحساء للزوار قرب ضريح الشيخ عبد القادر الكيلاني.</p> <p>ويكسب وسام خمسة الاف دينار يوميا (اربعة دولارات)، وعلى سبيل المقارنة ان النائب في البرلمان يتقاضى اجرا اعلى بتسعين مرة.</p> <p>زوج فليحة اصبح ضعيفا جدا ولا يمكنه العمل فيما قضى ابنها الاخر محمد في هجوم انتحاري في كانون الثاني (يناير) 2007. وقد خفضت الحكومة حصة مواد البطاقة التموينية التي توزع شبه مجانا على المواطنين.وكان نظام البطاقة التموينية انشىء في سياق برنامج «النفط مقابل الغذاء» من اجل «التخفيف من الآثار المأساوية» للحظر الذي فرضته الامم المتحدة على العراق .</p> <p>ويضع ذلك عائلة فليحة تحت خط الفقر الذي حددته الحكومة ب 2,20 دولار للفرد يوميا.</p> <p>وتقدر الاحصائيات الحكومية ان سبعة ملايين عراقي يمثلون خمس الشعب يعيشون دون عتبة الفقر، وهو عدد مرشح للارتفاع بسبب عدم تسلم نحو ستة ملايين عائلة الحصة التموينية لمدة ستة اشهر.</p> <p>وفي الوقت الذي تقدم وزراء بخطط طموحة للحد من الفقر في السنوات القادمة وخفضه من 22% الى 16% من السكان بحلول 2015، يشكك الخبراء والفقراء على السواء في امكانية تحقيق ذلك.</p> <p>وقال مهدي العلاق وكيل وزير التخطيط العراقي «هذه (المشكلة) ليست مستعصية على الحل، لأن الغالبية العظمى من الفقراء يعيشون على مقربة من هذه العتبة، واذا تم تطبيق السياسات والاجراءات الصحيحة سينخفض هذا المستوى».</p> <p>وهذا الكلام صحيح نظريا اذ يملك العراق رابع أكبر احتياطي نفطي في العالم ولديه كل الضمانات بزيادة دخله.</p> <p>ولكن البلد مر بظروف متعاقبة دمرت اقتصاده.</p> <p>ورأت الامم المتحدة في تقرير صدر مؤخر ان «الحروب والعقوبات هي التي ساهمت في تدهور مستوى معيشة العراقيين» مشيرة الى ان «هذا البلد كان يعتبر في الماضي من الاكثر تطورا في الشرق الاوسط».</p> <p>وتبنت الحكومة في أواخر العام 2009 «الاستراتيجية الوطنية لمكافحة الفقر» التي تضمنت ستة أهداف ابرزها خلق فرص عمل والمساواة بين الرجل والمرأة وتحسين نظام الرعاية الصحية والتعليم.</p> <p>ومن المقرر ان يقدم في أيار (مايو) المقبل تقرير اولي عما تم تنفيذه.</p> <p>ولكن الخبراء يعتقدون ان العراق لا يزال يرزح تحت مشاكل تجعل من الصعب خفض معدلات الفقر.</p> <p>وقال خالد محمد خالد المحلل في برنامج الأمم المتحدة الانمائي ومقره عمان مشيرا الى تقرير منظمة الشفافية الدولية الذي صنف العراق في المرتبة الرابعة بين الدول الاكثر فسادا في العالم، ان «قلة كفاءة المسؤولين على المستويين المحلي والمركزي يعني ان معالجة الفقر قد تتطلب وقتا اطول مما هو متوقع».</p> <p>واضاف ان البلد بحاجة الى اصلاحات اكبر» معتبرا ان هذا اهم من زيادة دخل الفرد.</p> <p>وتابع متسائلا «اذا لم يتم تحسين الصحة والتعليم واذا لم نخلق البنية التحتية، ماذا يعني ان نعطي المزيد من الاموال؟».</p> <p>ويدعو تقرير الامم المتحدة الى تنويع الاقتصاد مشيرا الى ان قطاع النفط يوفر 1% فقط من الوظائف ولو انه يمثل 65 بالمئة من اجمالي الناتج الداخلي العراقي.</p> <p>وعلى اثر السخط الشعبي المتنامي قررت الحكومة تخفيض رواتب المسؤولين الكبار وبينهم الوزراء بنسبة تصل الى النصف، فيما قررت زيادة مخصصات الحصة التموينة لتبلغ اربعة مليارات دولار.</p> <p>وتقول صبيحة (60 عاما) وهي ام لثمانية اولاد يعمل منهم واحد فقط ان كل هذا لا يقنع الذين يعانون من البؤس.</p> <p>واضافت صبيحة التي تعيش في كوخ وسط مكب للنفايات في منطقة الزعفرانية جنوب شرق بغداد «ليس لدينا أمل». </p> <p>وتضيف «هنا لا يوجد ماء ولا كهرباء ولا مدارس. لماذا نعيش هكذا؟ ألسنا بلدا غنيا بالنفط والغاز؟».</p> <p>  </p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12266"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/25/life-semi-deserted-in-baghdad-on-occasion-of-imam-husseins-40th-martyrdom-day/#comments" title="Comment on Life semi-deserted in Baghdad on occasion of Imam Hussein’s 40th Martyrdom Day">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on January 25th, 2011 by Harith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/25/life-semi-deserted-in-baghdad-on-occasion-of-imam-husseins-40th-martyrdom-day/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Life semi-deserted in Baghdad on occasion of Imam Hussein’s 40th Martyrdom Day">Life semi-deserted in Baghdad on occasion of Imam Hussein’s 40th Martyrdom Day</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arbaeen/" rel="tag">Arbaeen</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/aswat-al-iraq-features/" rel="tag">Aswat Al Iraq Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote><p>The streets of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, usually crowded with cars and pedestrians, appear semi-deserted on Monday, due to huge numbers of people who have walked to the Shiite holy city of Karbala, on the occasion of the 40th Day of Imam Hussein’s Martyrdom Day, dating back to the 6th Muslim Hijri calender in the dawn of Islam.</p> <p>Aswat al-Iraq News Agency’s Correspondent in Baghdad noticed that the majority of  Shiite Baghdadis have left walking to Karbala city, 108 km to the southwest of the Iraqi capital, whilst others have been offering free food and water on the main roads to serve those people.</p> <p>He also noticed that all street salesman, selling food, vegetables and other goods, on the pavements throughout Baghdad, alongside those working in the main supply markets, have disappeared from the streets. <br/>Bread bakeries, super markets, mechanics, spare part shops and pharmacies have also closed as employees and owners have all left for Karbala.</p> <p>The correspondent reported that large numbers of security forces were seen carrying out inspection measures on checkpoints, spread throughout road-sides in Baghdad’s districts, as part of measures to detect possible booby-trapped cars or armed men, who usually exploit such occasions to attack crowded areas in the city.</p> <p>Hundreds of Shiite visitors, on their way to the holy city of Karbala, have been victims of several terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of dozens of people, including women and children, despite intensive security measures in Baghdad’s streets and districts.</p> <p>Electrical power, the correspondent said, had become too week in Baghdad over the past couple of days, due to the transfer of the main power load to the Shiite holy cities, commemorating the said religious occasion, according to the spokesman of the Iraqi Electricity Ministry, Musaab al-Mudarris.</p> <p>The correspondent also noticed that most schools and offices of the Iraqi Education Ministry in Baghdad had become semi-deserted, despite the fact that the goverrnment had not announced a day-off on the said occasion.</p> <p>The Shiite holy city of Karbala is witnessing millions of visitors from different Iraqi provinces and foreign countries walking on foot to commemorate the 40th Day of Imam Hussein’s martrydom, dating back to the 61st Muslim Hirjri calender of the dawn 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القوات العراقية, Conflict and Health | Full text | Uranium and other contaminants in hair from the parents of children with congenital anomalies in Fallujah, Iraq, أسوشييتد برس: القوات الأميركية ستغادر العراق باستثناء 160 عسكريا يتولون حماية السفارة, تسمم 80 شخصا تناولوا طعاما فاسدا في مطعم جنوب السليمانية">16</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/17/" title="Mosul celebrates US forces withdrawal : Aswat Al Iraq, Sadr returns from Iran : Aswat Al Iraq, العراق يخصص (842) مليار دينار للتخفيف من الفقر">17</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/18/" title="Only 20 US bases left in Iraq: spokesman – AFP, ارتفاع نسبة البطالة بين النساء العراقيات إلى 25 بالمئة, خروج آخر جندي أميركي من محافظة نينوى اليوم">18</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/19/" title="سجناء مركز شرطة المنصور يستغيثون من التعذيب والاغتصاب, قوات تركية تتوغل في اقليم كردستان, أكاديميون في النجف: مساع لتعزيز الحوار بين الأديان والطوائف في العراق, Not Even As Little As One Hundredth Of One Dunum, Turkey warns ‘other powers’ it sees behind deadly PKK attack, الآلة العسكرية التركية تتحرك باتجاه الاراضي العراقية برا وجوا">19</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/20/" title="مقتل القذافي متأثرا بجروح أصيب بها لدى اعتقاله, الجيش التركي يعلن استمرار المواجهات العسكرية طوال ليل الاربعاء الخميس بين قواته والمتمردين الاكراد, برلماني يكشف عن سعي بايدن لإبقاء عدد من الجنود الامريكيين في العراق خارج إطار التدريب, Iraqi mass graves still hold half a million unidentified corpses">20</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/21/" title="مصدر: مقتدى ألصدر ينوي تغيير آلية ونشاط تياره بعد الانسحاب الأمريكي, التظاهرات ووجوهها, اتفاق تعاون إيراني تركي لمحاربة المتمردين الكورد, Goodbye, Try Not To Hurt Yourselves On The Way Out">21</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/22/" title="اوباما يعلن انه سيسحب بنهاية العام الحالي كل القوات الاميركية التي ما زالت متمركزة في العراق, نائب صدري: لا مبرر لاعادة جيش المهدي للعمل اذا تم الانسحاب الأمريكي, منتخب الشباب بكرة القدم يتوجه الى بنغلاديش للمشاركة في التصفيات الاسيوية للشباب, Ahrar Bloc support depends on stands against US forces stay">22</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/23/" title="البيشمركة تعلن عن تشكيل أربعة ألوية جديدة, تدمير ناقلة لقوات الاحتلال الأمريكية بهجوم مسلح جنوب شرق بغداد, Qassem al-Araji – US Monopoly of Arms Supply To Be Ended, الصحة تكشف عن إصابة 10 آلاف عراقي بالتدرن الرئوي سنوياً">23</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>24</td><td>25</td><td id="today"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111026182751/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/26/" title="وزارة الداخلية العراقية تؤكد ان حملة اعتقال البعثيين تتصلُ بمؤامرة ٍللاستيلاء على السلطة, مدرعات تركية تقتحم حدود العراق باتجاه معسكر لحزب العمال الكردستاني, Barzani Attempts to Mollify Iran and Turkey">26</a></td><td>27</td><td>28</td><td>29</td><td>30</td> </tr> <tr> <td>31</td> <td class="pad" colspan="6"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div></div><div class="widget"><h4>Archives</h4> <select name="archive-dropdown" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;"> <option value="">Select Month</option> <option value="http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/"> October 2011 </option> <option value="http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/"> September 2011 </option> <option value="http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/"> July 2011 </option> <option value="http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/"> June 2011 </option> <option value="http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/"> May 2011 </option> <option value="http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/"> April 2011 </option> <option value="http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/"> March 2011 </option> <option 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