Baghdad's General Traffic Directorate has activated a new smart camera system to detect speeding, phone use & other ...

Baghdad has a history dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and was later one of Islam’s great capitals. But Saddam Hussein’s closed regime left the modern city unknown to the outside world.

The Baghdad Group for Modern Art was founded in 1951 after a dynamic period of change and growth in Iraq following the nation ...

The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art includes works by artists such as Dia al-Azzawi, Jewad Selim and Mohammed Ghani ...

Selim, in many ways the spirit behind the Modern movement in Baghdad, died in 1961. By the 1980s, Chadirji had settled in London. For those who remained behind, the final blow came from the West.

Baghdad’s Stock Market Goes Modern. 4 minute read. Daniel Pepper/Baghdad. February 6, 2008 12:00 AM EST. L ocated behind a series of concrete and barbed wire barricades in a Christian enclave of ...

Modern Media for Baghdad and Beyond. Harris Corp. Will Oversee Broadcast Upgrades in Iraq. By John Merli. Published: February 29, 2004 ... training and programming for two radio and two TV terrestrial ...

By World War I, one-third of Baghdad's population was Jewish. Anti-Jewish campaigns began in earnest with Israel's creation in 1948, and Israel brought more than 100,000 Jews out by the early 1950s.

Only a few decades ago, Baghdad's longing to modernize drew some of the world's top architects, who began reshaping the historic city. The endeavor ended too soon. When Iraq looked West - Los ...