Iraqi students from the University of Mosul are on a mission to share English content with their peers in Arabic.
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Video: How local bookshops are helping to revive Iraq’s literary community
Despite years of war, censorship and dictatorships in Iraq, authors and intellectuals have determinedly gathered to exchange ideas and share their experiences.
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Video: ‘Artefact detectives’ in Iraq aim to end the theft of their history
A group of amateur ‘artefact detectives’ in Iraq are on a mission to return countless historical items taken from their country over the years.
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Dubai’s Careem expands operations to Mosul
Careem says it plans to roll out its full suite of services in Iraqi city in line with its vision of becoming the region’s everyday super app
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Avengers team launch Hollywood’s first all-Arabic action movie
Every line in Mosul, based on the Iraqi police’s Nineveh SWAT team and produced by Joe and Anthony Russo, is in Iraqi dialect
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Storytelling, games make Iraq comeback on Ramadan nights
Mosul, now a city of almost two million people, has for centuries been a commercial and intellectual hub of the Middle East
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‘Maestro of Baghdad’ brings sounds of ‘peace, coexistence’ to ruins of Iraq’s Mosul
Karim Wasfi, in full concert dress, played on a makeshift stage among the most iconic religious monuments of Iraq’s second city
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In pictures: Angelina Jolie visits the ruins of Iraq’s Mosul
UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visits Mosul, less than a year after the city’s liberation. She arrives in the city on the second day of the Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
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In pictures: Voters head to the polls for Iraq’s parliamentary elections
Iraq’s first election since the defeat of Islamic State is a critical step for a country that could have disappeared from the map amid the jihadists’ onslaught. The Saturday vote was also a test of the regional influence wielded by Iran at a time when the U.S. is determined to rein it in.
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In pictures: UAE to rebuild historic Mosul’s Grand al-Nouri mosque and al-Hadba minaret
The UAE and Iraq signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cultural cooperation, with a landmark project in Mosul as a centerpiece of the agreement between the two countries. The reconstruction and restoration historic al-Nouri mosque and al-Hadba’ minaret of Mosul will continue over the course of five years and will be supervised by a joint committee including representatives of the Emirati and the Iraqi Ministries of Culture, UNESCO, the Iraqi Sunni Endowment, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and ICCROM Regional Office in Sharjah.
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UAE to help Iraq to rebuild iconic Mosul mosque destroyed by ISIL
UAE Culture Minister Noura al-Kaabi said her country would put forward $50m for the rebuilding
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Video: Young Iraqis trying to rebuild Mosul
It’s been more than six months now since the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared victory over IS in Iraq’s second city of Mosul (10th of July) – where they once announced their so called Caliphate.
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In pictures: Iraq declares victory in liberated Mosul
Retaking Mosul marks a major blow against ISIL, whose leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first speech as self-proclaimed caliph from one of the city’s mosques in 2014.
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Iraqi PM declares Mosul liberated from ISIL
The group is now diminished, having lost much of its territory spanning northeastern Syria and northwestern Iraq