#iraqi

[zegalba]

A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, while waiting for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint village of Shaqouli after she fled her home with her children on November 10, 2016.

[holidaysincambodia]

Sumerian/Mesopotamian Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull, c. 3250 BCE.

[wearepeace]

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.” ― Neil Armstrong

[nando161mando]

🚨🇾🇪 BREAKING: The Yemeni Armed Forces announce, in cooperation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, the targeting of a vital target at the Port of Asdod (north of #Gaza), as well as the targeting of an important target in the Port of Haifa.

Additionally, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative operation targeting the ship "TUTOR" in the Red Sea, due to its parent company's violation of the ban on the ports of occupied Palestine.

[majestativa]

A beast (awaits you) there, dreaming of you above all others.

— Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq, compiled by Terri DeYoung, (1998)

[secular-jew]

Who's the aggressor again?

[yourdailyqueer]

Wafia Al-Rikabi

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Pansexual

DOB: 4 August 1993

Ethnicity: Iraqi, Syrian

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician

[totallyhussein-blog]

Learn what “Loving, and loving, are all about”

Shortly before the 2007 landmark vote, in which the State of Massachusetts legislature endorsed marriage equality by a 151-45 vote, Mildred Loving, one of the plaintiffs in the landmark racial marriage equality case from 1967 ’Loving v. Virginia’, endorsed equal marriage rights for gay couples.

The Loving’s had committed what the U.S State of Virginia called unlawful cohabitation. Their marriage was deemed illegal because Mildred was Black and Native American; and Richard was white. Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court and on June 12th, 1967, the couple won.

“My generation was bitterly divided over something that should have been so clear and right. The majority believed that what the judge said, that it was God’s plan to keep people apart, and that government should discriminate against people in love.

But I have lived long enough now to see big changes. The older generation’s fears and prejudices have given way, and today’s young people realize that if someone loves someone they have a right to marry.

Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person” for me to marry.

I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights.

I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.“

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Atayef (Middle Eastern Pancakes) 

[oncanvas]

Approaching Oblivion, Kadhim Hayder, 1984

Oil on canvas 141 x 116 cm (55 ½ x 45 ⅝ in.)

[occvltswim]

@afadedrose

[foxtrotsigma]

ISOF in an engagement in northern Iraq.

[holidaysincambodia]

Lioness Devouring a Man, Phoenician Ivory Panel, c. 9th-8th century BCE. From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.

[wearepeace]

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[nando161mando]

Yemen, Iraqi resistance carry out joint operations against Israel

🔹Yemeni armed forces and Islamic Resistance forces in Iraq have launched new joint operations against the Israeli regime over its genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza.

[majestativa]

Once love enters into the heart, it becomes a house for longings.

— Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq, compiled by Terri DeYoung, (1998)