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Droplets of Shame by Karin Attia, Israel

Author: By Karin Attia, Israel
Published: February 5, 2018
Categories: in Current Events, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: citizenoftheworld, dialogue, huanity, iraq, israel, Kurdistan, MiddleEast, occupation, peacebuilding, understanding

For as long as I can remember, I’ve constantly qualified my identity. Israeli-Moroccan, American-Israeli, born in Israel, but raised in California as if I wanted to remove myself from my birthplace, from my heritage, from my grandparents refuge. Constantly putting a distance between my born identity and not wanting to be labeled as an occupier. […]

Beyond Our Differences by Rahma Henchiri from Tunisia

Published: January 3, 2018
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Education, Identity
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Tags: #thinkactyala, Culture, greece, iraq, Kurdistan, peacebuilding, refugees, tunisia, yazidi, yazidiculture, yazidis

Before I started working at Skaramagas refugee camp in Athens, I did not know what to expect from the children. Ever since I can remember, I have been hearing about the Yazidi-Arab tension; and thus, being an Arab myself, I was worried that my hopes of becoming the girls’ older sister would eventually turn to […]

Discover Erbil by BAREZ AHMED [Photo Essay]

Published: July 4, 2017
Categories: in English, Latest Articles, Photo Essays
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Tags: #eupeacebuildinginitiative, #thinkactyala, citadel, Culture, discovertheregion, erbil, iraq, irbil, Kurdistan, Travel, yalacampaign

IRAQ/KURDISTAN — These pictures are of Erbil citadel. Erbil citadel is a famous place for tourists in Iraq. Erbil city is the capital of Kurdistan. The castle and the citadel are the guardians of centuries of history.

Living in the Present as a Good Leader by BAREZ AHMAD

Published: July 3, 2017
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Identity, Latest Articles
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Tags: #eupeacebuildinginitiative, #thinkactyala, change, equality, iraq, justice, Kurdistan, leaders, leadership, peace, peacebuilding, socialchange

IRAQ/KURDISTAN — I believe that good leaders have many different qualities, but one that unites them all is their wish to create a comfortable, peaceful circumstance for society as a whole by tackling those existing troubles that face a community. In doing so, they avoid planting any negative thoughts in society or the environment…

Sabunkaran Alley by SARYAS SAEED

Published: June 29, 2017
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Identity, Latest Articles
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Tags: historty, iraq, Kurdistan, memory, Sabunkaran

IRAQ/KURDISTAN — I was born in Sabunkaran Alley, one of the three ancient alleys built in 1784 by King Ibrahim, the Emperor of Baban in Sulaimaniya City. It was the home of the great poet Tawfeq Mahmoud Hamza, also known as Piramerd and, through the years, it has become the heart of the city center…

Saving a Life by Ahmed Barben, Iraq

Published: January 11, 2017
Categories: in Civil Activism, English, Human Rights, Iraq
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Tags: baby, birth, doctor, help, iraq, life, medicine

It was at lunchtime on January 2016 and it was on the first day of our 2 and half months of our pediatric training course for medical school. We had just finished class when my friend Haider and I decided to walk through the yard of the hospital to familiarize ourselves with our new environment. […]

Change is Possible By Akar, Kurdistan-Iraq

Published: December 8, 2016
Categories: in English, Identity, Iraq
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Tags: Iran, iraq, Kurdistan, Refugee, socialanxiety, youth

I am a Kurdish-Iraqi citizen, born in Iran as a refugee. The place where we lived in Iran was called “Ordogahe Sonqor,” which was near Kermanshah, and there were more than 500 families gathered and living in the area as refugees. There was a school for us where we were mixed with Persian students. I […]

Darashish, and My First Lesson from a Stranger Abed-allah A. Baba from Iraq

Published: November 24, 2016
Categories: in English, Fall Semester 2016, Human Rights, Iraq
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Tags: change, children, iraq, lifelesson, youth

I was born in Sulaimanyah, Iraq in 1994. Not only is it a great city, but it has officially been recognized as the capital of enlightenment by the Kurdistan Regional Government. But at the age of 5 my father’s job forced us to move to Iran, and so we went to Sanandaj in 1999. I […]

Video | Women of the Middle East

Published: November 19, 2015
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Egypt, Friendship, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Media, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tolerance, Videos
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Tags: algeria, education, egypt, equality, Freedom of Speech, iraq, israel, middle east, morocco, palestine, sudan, syria, women

Women from all over the Middle East are speaking up – for education, safety, equality, for their freedom of speech. They come from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria and Sudan, but they are united in commitment to be the voice of the voiceless.

Muhammad | Iraq – photo essay –

Published: July 7, 2015
Categories: in Iraq, Media, Photo Essays
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Tags: iraq, Kurdistan, refugees

These pictures were taken in a Syrian Refugee Camp in Kurdistan, it shows the children and youth in the camp and their hope for a better life- they are refugees but they are positive!

The True Unseen Consequences of a Military Strike on Syria by Miaad Hassan, Iraq

Published: August 31, 2013
Categories: in Current Events, English, Iraq
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Tags: iraq, MiaadHassan, MiddleEast, Obama

While the administration of the United States is still debating on an appropriate action to take against the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons, which is estimated to have killed more than 1,000 people, determining “when” and “how” are absolutely critical when applying the strategy of deterrence. “But if we are saying in a clear […]

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