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FEEFAA org is online space, with cultural documentations, stories, as well as creative new material. FEEFAA includes collections of old gold jewellery in the FEEFAA Gold section, articles in the Insight section, and art exhibitions are presented in the “Today Gallery at FEEFAA“.  

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Insight

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  • Day trip to the gold shops in Al Nahir Street; As a teenager in the 1960’s in Baghdad, I frequently accompanied my mother to the Old Baghdad Centre visiting the many attractions on Rashid Street and Al Nahir Street, this article is a golden memory of these trips. The map traces our route.

  • Al Nahir Street (meaning River Street) is the first modern street that was opened in the traditional urban fabric of Baghdad city; it was the Ottoman governor Nadhum Pasha who ordered the opening of the street in the year 1910. The starting point to the street was Al Mustansiriya School.

  • Snapshot of one foreign woman’s impressions of a country at war, while she was armed only with: the shallow remains of Arabic language, her personal U.S. educational experience to extrapolate as a road map for others, one recent National Geographic article on Iraq, and an open heart.

  • Between 1996 to 1999, while Amir Harrak was working on Syriac Epigraphy at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, he saw some of the Assyrian Jewellery from Nimrud exhibited, he was able to examine and photograph them. They are jewelleries of immense beauty.

  • Documentary of school days in Baghdad from the neighborhood kindergarten to end of high school. Memories of: 1. British Council Kindergarten / Ms. Saywell and Al Sadoon Park Neighbourhood, 2. Al Mansour Primary Private School, 3. Baghdad High School and 4. Al Sharqiya High School for Girls.

  • "The Beginnings, Al Mansour City" is a personal recollection of the city, its beginnings, its development, its people and community, the horse-racing track, Al Mansour Club, its streets, schools and houses, while living in the city for 20 years from the mid-fifties to mid-seventies.

  • These jewellery pieces were typically discovered in tombs and around temples as offerings for the gods. Most objects were found in the Phoenicians colonies such as Carthage in Tunis, Kition in Cyprus, in Italy, Morocco, Spain and Portugal with some finds in Byblos, Sidon and Tyre.

  • Baghdad College, the storey of 37 years, from inception in 1932, to the end of the mission in 1969. The arrival of the American Jesuits from Boston/USA and their achievement in successfully establishing one of the finest schools in Iraq and the Middle East that educated more than 4000 students.

  • A boy remembers Baghdad of the early 1950s and the delights of its iconic market, Souk Al-Safafeer.

  • To visualize the changes the journey will start with the early work and end with the recent appearances.

  • Factors that contributed and influenced the continuity and development of the fine art in Iarq between 1921 and the early 1960s.

  • Geoffrey Payne arrived in Baghdad in the summer of 1986. His assignment was for two visits three weeks each. He still remembers his visit and its lasting memories.

  • Al-Samawah rugs are unlike any other textile tradition of the Middle East. The rugs designs are influenced by the surrounding environment of the region and its history.

  • We arrived in Baghdad on December 19, 1988, and stayed for the most action-packed two weeks of our lives. Between visiting numerous relatives, and site seeing, there was no time to spare and rest.

  • Aysar developed her interest in the centuries old niello skills and culture of the Sabaeans/Mandaeans.  At about the age of eighteen, she started her collection of silver artifacts.

  • From the Arabic culinary manuscripts, we learn not only about the methods of food preparation. These texts provide insight into medieval Arab life, we have a mirror reflecting their society. 

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FEEFAA Gold 

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Items exhibited represents designs influenced by trends, culture, history and surrounding regions.  

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FEEFAA is voluntary work of professionals, academics and art lovers, passionately gathered the material and created this documentary.

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Best of knowledge, search for information and memory assembled together.

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Providing bases for additions, comparison and further studies.  

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Participate by submitting articles, collections and goldsmith biographies to FEEFAA. 

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FEEFAA has expanded its collections to include contemporary jewellery by selected artists in a new section named “Today Gallery at FEEFAA”.

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Insight section includes related articles and memoirs. 

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Exhibited jewellery items are grouped by collections, types and subtypes.

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Celebrating the addition of the tenth collection “dune”.

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Terminologies: Hujil is children anklet; Milwie is women’s anklet, today used as a bracelet; Baswand or Zanadi is arm band; Gardana or Gardunligh is a wide necklace choker; Gou Zair is gold beads 

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Terminologies: Mantashi is a large chest brooch; Qobcha is a round brooch made of pearls; Sabah is a bracelet made of several chains; Qardon is a chain necklace of a specific design.

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Al Nahir Street Goldsmiths, Yousif Askar, Salim Sha’o, Khalil Malallah, and Hashim Al Warid were among the most well known names. 

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The gold used mainly is 22 karats known for its distinctive colour and softness.  Eighteen karats gold and lower is not used or very rarely.

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