In the 1950s and '60s, Baghdad was a city of jazz musicians, the foxtrot, and a liberal middle class. That atmosphere is gone now, maybe forever. A Baghdad jazz pianist, Samir Peter, says the former ...
Dancer Sean Scantlebury has been giving 22-year-old Aadel Qies Aadel of Baghdad regular dance lessons from Manhattan using Skype. Photo: Andrew Lamberson for The Wall Street Journal ...
The 340-mile road from Baghdad to Basra can be austere. Flat desert gives way to dunes swept by man and nature, then oases of grudgingly resilient date palms. Clumps of silt border dredged canals, ...
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq - Dance is a form of cultural expression. Like visual art, sculpture or architecture, dance encapsulates, reinforces and transmits cultural traditions and ...
“President Bush is expected to name an attorney general soon – perhaps this week. The five finalists: Michael Mukasey, Theodore B. (Ted) Olson, Laurence H. Silberman, George J. Terwilliger and Larry D ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Exit 12 Dance Company, a contemporary dance ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s most recent announcement saying the country’s main Sunni political bloc was ready to rejoin the government at first blush appeared routine. Maliki has been ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Members of rival Iraqi biker gangs, clad in studded leather and black berets, burst out of their semi-circles to break dance, their tattoo-covered arms waving neon glowsticks ...