The real Iraqi individual not
represented in his root and source, but who love Iraqi s people, land, and
history…….
Mesopotamia
Reviving and
Promoting Iraqi identity and culture A Periodical published by The Center For Iraqi
Nation Studies
Editor: Salim Matar Secretary: : Nasrat MARDAN Translator:
Marguerite Gavillet Baghdad Bureau
Manager: Tariq kamil Advisory body Amal Emily Porter Ishtar Al Barazanji Dr. Ali Thwany Mohammad Mazlum Amira Edan Hussein Almozanu Adnan Hussein Ahmed Priliminary Designer and photo selector:
Salim MATAR Covers
designer : Dr. Ali Thwany Corel designer:
Meead Al-Nidawi Communication adress: You can follow the magazine issues at the following
locations: Contents
Forward: Five thousand years of
Iraqi femininity..why? Section one:Ancient Iraq ..or Sumerian- Akkadian period(Cuneiform
period)
-preface : women’s role in this
period -Goddess in ancient Iraq -Emily Amal
Porter – UK -Ishtar goddess of femininity and
life -Dr. Ali Al Qasimi/ Rabat -The descendant of the goddess to
the underworld -DR. Fadil Sudani /Copenhagen -Sameramis
a legend or reality -Maki Jasim/ Stockholm Section two:Aramaic -Christian period
- preface: the
occupation of homeland and the martyrdom of saint’s female -The females in Hatra- Amal Porter/
Uk -Female martyrs in Iraqi
Christianity – Fatemma Saber Al Hilly/ Lebanon -Sherin of Messan the Sassiness
empress- Amera Aidan/ Baghdad -Miriam the Mother of Many(Babylonian prophet)-Khalid Baban/
Poland -Hind The Nun and princess -Adel K.
Al Faloji /Indonesia Section Three:The Arabic Islamic period
- preface: Islam -Arab culture and
femininity -The iniquity of historian toward
Sujah an Iraqi women from Mousil- (Mesopotamia/ Damascus) -Women in the life of Harron Al
Rashed -Samira T. Al Fualy/ Waset -Narjis The Christian mother of Imam
Al mahdi- Zainab Al Samaraai/ Missan -Rabeaa AL Adaweyah Iraqi saint
-Sabiha Thweny/ Stockholm -Turkish mothers and wives at the
Abbasids palaces- prof. Akram Bamokachi /Ankara -Iraqi femininity
and the One Thousand and
One Night /Mesopotamia /Geneva Section four:The Dark Ages, Mongols and Ottoman period
-preface:yes there was a
decadence, but the Turks were not
the reasons… -The emotional story of
the Italian explorer who kept his Baghdadi’s wife corps for four years-
Mesopotamia /Baghdad -The last letter from
Shahyraban the Iraqi women to her
Husband Madhat Pasha in His exile in Taief -Nasrat Merdan/ Geneva -Fadaa and her poems of agony and dignity-DR. Fadhil Al Saadony/ Baghdad Section Five:Modern Times
and the revival of Iraqi nation
- preface: modern Iraq
and the search for forgotten femininity Popular personalities Al Mulayah a female
professional mourner -Samaya Ganim Al Dabag /Canada -Badji
Dawlet A women rendered and depict the Turkmen’s folk lore heritage- Nasrat Murdan /Geneva Biography - About my life /Nazik AL
Malayeka -Women
from my childhood from Tikret to Najaf - Farouk Saloum/ Baghdad -“I am an Iraqi from
Basra my ancestors are Arabs from Najad and Kurds from Sulaaimaniah” -Samira AL
Manaa/ London - MY mother Inspierd
me in creating mothers characters in my novels -
Muhsin Al Ramly /Spain -A trio for my daughter
Atyaf -Ali Al Sudani /Baghdad Stars from Mesopotamia -Amina Al sader, women of
literature - Aisha AL Sameraie/ Baghdad -Lamea Abas Imara A
Mesopotamian Mendaean poet -
Hayfa Al jader/ London - Farida Mohammed Al
Iraqi Maqam Diva- Nahreen Al
Najafi / Mosil - Pioneers and creators -Dr. Amer A. Yaser/ Baghdad From the nation -Yazidi Women_ The
princess Mian Khatoon and the Umayyad princess Wansa - Jorjet Habeb/ Basra Artistic heritage -Historical Fashion and
local fashion for Iraqi women (Hana Sadiq Fashion designer creative and genuine
)- Wedad Al Hilfi/ Baghdad Ishtars -Iraqi Divas –
Mesopotamia/ Baghdad -Female Iraqi painters In Diaspora - Adnan
Hussain Ahmed/ Amsterdam -Female personality in
Iraqi culture- Khanzad Abdul
latif/ Arbel -Turkmenian women of
literature - Adila Al Tel laafari/
Diala Featured Character
-The Woman of the Flask -(Selim
MATAR – Genčve) Topic:Women’s right and
marital life in the Iraqi society
Part one - Law and tradition;- Dr.
Amal Aochi, Mohammed Madlom, Kazioh Salih, women freedom association Part two-The temporary
marriage (usufruct marriage contracted for a specified time and exclusively for
the purpose of sexual pleasure.- Ali abudul Amir, Awatif Abdul Hammed, The
Cestany, Arabic Net, Jamal Al Bana, Ibrahim Al Jundy, Al Zendani, Al Sharq Al
Awsat, Saad Al Hameed |