On Thursday, August 25th, The Kurdish Human Rights Watch, one of eleven national resettlement agencies providing reception and placement services to refugees in the United States, held a social dinner reception at Taza Restaurant in Warren, Michigan. Pary Karadaghi, Executive...
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Everyone has an ethnic, religious, and political culture that is unique and would be insightful – if it had one home.
“Cultural Views” is a blog name I reserved in 2007. I was unable to commit to the...
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“I’ve learned so much from these women. They’ve made me clarify my
thoughts. Being challenged by them is an unbelievable gift.” –
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Today’s Christianity July/August...
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First a recipe:
If you want to make homemade turtle soup, you have to be careful and
you must wait. You'd want to catch a sea turtle because you get thirty
or more pounds of meat from it depending on weight....
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During my trip to Baghdad five years ago I visited my parents' Christian village in Mosil and asked my cousins to find me an an abayya in the souk. He found one I liked, disputed with the merchant over a few...
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The words China and Egypt, Athens and Rome, bring to most people's mind a mysterious history and a respected culture. Rarely will the word Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq, do the same. You'll probably receive...
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Born in Baghdad as a minority Christian, I came to America when I was ten. Balancing the act between tribalism and democracy was my major challenge, especially since tribalism is looked down upon....
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When I was a child, I often heard that America "raised Saddam," that he was her son. He was conceived the moment, if not before, he attempted to topple Iraqi President Abdul Kareem Qassim. It was 1959 and...
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