Lillie Taimoorazy (center) stands with dancers from the Shameeram Folkloric Group she founded to share the art and history of the Assyrians. In times of hardship, war, genocide or displacement, women ...

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has sought to reshape its global image, shifting from a legacy of aggression-most notably the 1990 invasion of Kuwait-to one centered on cultural ...

(CNN) — As Tommy Driskill, a YouTuber from Hawaii who’s better known by his moniker, ‘Dude Abroad’, sat down for a traditional Iraqi breakfast of kahi and geymar (pastries and clotted cream) outside a ...

The heart of intellectual Iraq was Mutannabi Street, the booksellers' alley in Baghdad. But it was bombed in March this year. "Aloud at Central Library" will memorialize Mutannabi Street with readings ...

From Civil War sheet music to Vietnam radio and Iraq-era digital media, the entertainment that became morale equipment. War has always had a soundtrack. It has also had a bedside table. In every major ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, June 11 (UNHCR) - A trio of refugee musicians from Iraq have released their first album on some of the world's leading music-sharing sites and have agreed to use the profits to help ...

If it’s difficult to read stories from a time of war, it’s even more difficult to stage them. If a playwright, an actor, a director can be said to walk a tightrope when they do, in works like 9 Parts ...