Renowned Saudi actor Abdulmohsen Al-Nemr recently visited the iconic Mutanabbi Street in the heart of Baghdad, a location ...

Alyawi pointed out that the history of these ... An exhibition of rare books and manuscripts some of which are more than a thousand years old will open in Baghdad on April 4, under the slogan ...

nomadic warriors calledMongols destroyed our city and threw all our books in the river. And all this? Well, it’ll be History. We are taken back over 1,000 years, where a servant in Baghdad is ...

However, history, war, and geopolitics stole that destiny, reducing Baghdad to a war-torn shadow ... The House of Wisdom was burned down, and its books were thrown into the Tigris River.

Abdulkareem estimates the library holds between 80,000 and 85,000 books, and it is believed to now be one of Baghdad’s largest after so much was lost in 2003. “We would love to have contact ...

This great era in Islamic history is known as The Abbasid ... Muslim scholars collected and translated books from across the known world. In Baghdad, the Abbasid caliph created a centre of ...

Baghdad Mayoralty and Baghdad Operations Command prepare to re-open a street in Souq Ghazi, Mansour District, Baghdad. 10 July 2019. Photo: Omar Sirri This project investigates the political economy ...