BAGHDAD - Dusty books lie on flattened cardboard boxes on a sidewalk buried in litter and building debris. Their vendors hunch their shoulders and sip hot black tea to fend off the cold. What matters is that they're here. The revival of the Mutanabi Street book market is a microcosm of today's Baghdad.
BAGHDAD - The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the past two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003. But, say the store's two owners, the future is uncertain as long as they can't count on safe streets, stable government and reliable electricity supplies.
...SALMAN, Qais Muhammad), Bludan, Syria; Mutanabi Area, Al Monsur, Baghdad, Iraq; DOB 21 Oct 1971; P...
..., with a part of town named after it: Al-Mutanabi Road--where all the businesses were closed on Satu...
BAGHDAD - In the three years since he took over the Iraqi National Library, Saad Eskander has repaired the damage from theft and arson, played detective and advised his employees on staying alive. He has transformed the library, burned and looted in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's ouster in 2003, into a symbol of hope in a country mired in sectarian violence, crime and political bickering.
...A huge bomb had torn through the Mutanabi Street book market, a short walk from the library....
... of weeks, we would..you would come to Al Mutanabi Street and see how did Baghdad..the government wor...
BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament passed Tuesday a law to change the Saddam Hussein-era flag, meeting the demands of Iraq's Kurdish minority who threatened not to fly the banner during a pan-Arab meeting in the Kurdish-run north next month. The measure, which expires in one year, was approved by show of hands, with 110 lawmakers of 165 present voting in favor of removing the three stars and changing the calligraphy of the words "Allahu Akbar" in a symbolic break with the past.
... and white are inspired by a poem by al- Mutanabi, a famous Arab poet who lived in medieval Baghdad....
March 19 was the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, but no one is paying much attention. Instead, our attention is fixated on bank bailouts and AIG bonuses. There are still 142,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq, but there is amazingly little fuss about them. U.S. casualties are down, and most troops will be withdrawn by the summer of 2010, with a reserve of 35,000 to 40,000 remaining through 2011.
... Humadi recently visited Baghdad's famous Mutanabi Street, which is lined with bookstores, his favori...
BAGHDAD, Iraq Beep, beep, beep. Then the text comes: "President Bush calls for a timetable for the withdrawal of the Iraqi people from Iraq. It's not a news update. It's Omar Abdul Kareem's relentlessly beeping cellphone and one of the 20 or so humorous text messages he gets every day from his friends.
... used to be trips to Baghdad's Mutanabi Street on Fridays to buy downloads and joke books ...
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