Although the agreement was never formalized, most of the Jewish community left the country but only some 5,000 Palestinians came to Iraq. (Wikipedia, Operation Ezra & Nechemia, accessed on ...

This is especially true of Akbar’s Hamzanama manuscript, a key milestone on the way to the new Mughal art. In one remarkable leaf on display, we can discern two distinct hands at work ...

It outlines the 2,500-year-old Jewish presence in Iraq, which ended abruptly due to violence and persecution that began in the 1940s. JJAC’s research estimates that assets and property seized ...

Iraq’s Jewish community was one of the oldest in Jewish history, dating back to the 6 th century BCE, hundreds of years before the Muslims established a presence in Iraq. Known as Bavel ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -The Art Center held the second annual Grand Junction Jewish Film Festival this weekend. The festival was created by co-founders Dalida Sassoon Bollig, Patti Kurtzman ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the Iraqi army’s clashes with Kurdish farmers northwest of the disputed ...

I grew up on stories of exile. My family was forced out of Iraq and Tunisia for being Jewish — homes stolen, communities erased and history rewritten. To this day, too many people insist it was ...

Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home ...

Iraq is diversifying its energy strategy by reducing its reliance on Iranian gas. Baghdad is looking to secure LNG as it works to ramp up domestic gas production. Tensions between Baghdad and the ...

Refugee groups have suggested that a British government advertising campaign targeting the Kurdish region of Iraq, warning residents not to attempt to travel to the UK to seek asylum, will be ...

But what takes years to build can collapse seemingly overnight. Iraq is the latest country in which many leaders are attempting to move out of Iran’s orbit. Last year, the Axis rapidly slid from ...