Fantastic Jewellery from Nimrud
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
Remembering Baghdad
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
Al Nahir Shines
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.
Golden Memoir
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