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Saudi Arabia: What would Kanye do?
Nevermind your text-messaged $10 and Sam's Grocer donating $1 for every lean strip steak purchased. As of Jan. 25, the U. S. government's foreign aid branch has donated $367,786,166 to Haiti, including...
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Fragment of an Empire
"O King of Assyria...your people are scattered on the mountains, with no one to gather them." -Nahum 3:18Iraqi Member of Parliament Yonadam Kanna is one of 275 people running the new Iraq, the...
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BFFs: Barack Friends Forever
President Barack Obama has 1,927,718 MySpace friends. All of whom are actually him.Who is still on MySpace? In the wiki-history of e-friendships, the original was Friendster, followed by MySpace, then...
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IHEC Announces U.S. Polling Centers for Friday's Iraq Elections
Elections for the new Iraqi Parliament will begin internationally on March 5. But Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission has provided no promotional budget for the U.S. polling centers and the 15...
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Voting Has Begun In- and Out-of-Country
Early voting began in-country on Thursday. Out-of-Country voting began today, March 5, and will continue through Sunday. See the photo gallery from the Independent High Electoral Commission on early...
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Wanna Vote? Who’s Your Daddy?
Thousands of Iraqi-Americans were turned away from the first day of voting in their native country’s elections because of a new, unwritten law. Unlike the 2005 elections, the Out-of-Country voters must...
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Now You've Gone and Upset the Natives
Elections Then and Now: IECI v. IHECIn 2005, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) governed Iraq's first-ever democratic parliamentary elections. I voted then through Out-of-Country...
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Iraq Voter Turnout More than U.S. Presidential Elections
The Iraq Elections had a voter turnout of 63 percent, higher than the average U.S. presidential elections of 47 percent since 1960.U.S. Iraqis had the second-largest Out-of-Country Voter turnout...
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30% of U.S. Iraqis' Votes Rejected
About 30 percent of ballots submitted by Iraqi-Americans are being rejected in Arbil, Iraq's headquarter's for the Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) program, U.S. OCV officials told me at 3 p.m today. The...
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Partial Results Show Standing Parliamentarian in Lead
Partial results of hotly contested minority Christians parties in Iraq elections show the Al Rafidain ("Two Rivers") Slate 389 is in the lead. The party has women, including a PhD chemist, on its slate...
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What Iraqi "Diaspora" Smells, Feels Like
An Iraqi woman poet, elderly sculptor and heartbroken painter express their love of mawtani - my homeland - in the short documentary Errant Home by Nada Doumani. Errant -- since no one reads these days...
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A New Iraq: Allawi Narrowly Beats Maliki
On Friday, March 26, the Independent High Electoral Council of Iraq (IHEC) announced the winners of the second generation of elections in the history of the new country.The leading coalition, former...
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50,000 Celebrate Assyrian New Year 6760 in Iraq
"There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria." -Isaiah 11:16More than 50,000 Assyrians celebrated their April 1 new year in the streets of Dohuk, Iraq. Not to...
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The Arab "Tsk!" Can Discourage Kings
For children of the Middle East, two things have the capacity to discourage the most overzealous, halt stampedes, stop an unruly child in his muddy footsteps and make the most narcissistic of kings...
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Cops and Robbers v. Civilians and Kidnappers
"Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged." Colossians 3:21My aunt was an Iraqi Olympic track and fielder. My uncles were soccer (football to the world) players. The boys...
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Iran's Not-So-Free Press
In 2004, Iran had about three independent newspapers that operated almost entirely under their editorial staff's determination of the newsworthy, without government intervention. "Red Lines and...
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Happy Nusardil
Fourteen weeks after Easter, Christian Iraqis celebrate the Transfiguration... by dunking buckets of water on perfect strangers.For the entire day, it is perfectly acceptable to this spectacular...
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The Story I Never Thought I'd Write
It’s 4:30 in the morning in Baghdad. I’m listening to the sounds of the prayer call intertwined with a rooster crowing. It’s actually quite beautiful. The only thing to rely on with absolute...
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