Category: Iraqi Collection

The qasidah describes a rite of passage in which the poet leaves his familiar surroundings, encounters a host of dangers, and returns to his tribe, celebrating his membership in the community. The poem contains...

Trying to find out the status of the Mirbad International Poetry Festival in Baghdad: Of great importance as well to a nascent Iraqi civil society is the reemergence throughout Iraq of a coffeehouse culture....

Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Gilgamesh Still engaged with elements of Gilgamesh, his frantic, futile search Encounter with Siduri, the veiled tavern keeper at the edge of the world She climbs on her roof when...

Footnote, July 30, 2005: Hussein says the library was to receive a boost last year from A Bridge to Baghdad, an Italian humanitarian group operating in Baghdad. But when two of the group’s workers,...