This mosaic created by Layla Al-Attar and it was placed on the ground outside the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad. Layla Al-Attar was the first female graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad. In 1985, she became the director of Iraqi Museum of Modern Art. Her artworks has been featured in many biennials. Through her art, al-Attar expressed ideals that attempted to recognize the importance of women in all spheres of society.
On 27 June 1993, Layla Al-Attar, her husband, and their housekeeper were killed by a U.S. missile attack.
When I finish my beer, I go to the grocery store and get a second beer because I don't have a fridge.
“Before the Republic was proclaimed, Nezihe Muhiddin gathered council with her 13 female friends and presented the proposal to establish a Women's People's Party to the parliament. Women's attempts to become a party, even before the Republican People's Party was not established, were rejected on the grounds that “according to the election law of 1909, political representation of women was not possible”.
This breaks my heart.
Marks were placed on the houses of Alevis to expose they are not Sunni, they were excluded, they were burned alive. Now we have an Alevi presidential candidate. And he will win.
Bodily mortification was a continuous feature of the life of an ascetic dervish. At the very least, all dervishes voluntarily subjected themselves to constant exposure by rejecting the comforts of settled life such as regular diet, shelter, and clothing. This basic condition of helplessness was exacerbated by additional mortifying practices such as shaving all bodily hair, wearing iron chains, rings, collars, bracelets, and anklets, and self-laceration. In all likelihood, these acts of self-denial were perceived by the dervishes not as self-inflicted pain but as the natural result as well as the confirmation of voluntary death before actual biological death. Complete devotion to the Divine entailed utter disregard for worldly existence, both physically and mentally. Active courting of physical death was a common component of dervish piety.
