Rebuilding Bridges to Iraq's Jewish Heritage - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ali Mamouri

Ali Mamouri

Aug 13, 2013

A man reads a copy of the magazine "Israel-Kurd" at a street in Arbil, 310 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad August 16, 2009. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ SOCIETY) - RTR26SCA — A man reads a copy of the magazine Israel-Kurd on a street in Erbil, 310 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, Aug. 16, 2009. — REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

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Iraqi Muslim worshippers pray during a joint Sunni-Shi'ite Friday prayer at the Martyrs Monument in Baghdad May 24, 2013. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has called to establish unified Friday prayers between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Baghdad, after attacks on Sunni and Shi'ite mosques in recent weeks. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST) - RTXZZ1S

Iraqi Interfaith Council Tries to Protect Minorities

Ali Mamouri

TO GO WITH STORY BY JOSEPH KRAUSS Muslim men sit at the entrance of a mosque, housing the tombs of the four companions of the Jewish prophet Ezekiel in the little town of Kifl, south of Baghdad, on April 29 2009. Muslims revere nearly all the central religious figures from Judaism and Christianity, including Ezekiel -- the prophet who followed the Judeans into the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BC. Between 1948 and 1951 nearly all of Iraq's 2,500-year-old Jewish community fled amid a region-wide outbr

Iraqis hungry for knowledge on country's displaced Jews

Shukur Khilkhal

Shukur Khilkhal

Iraqi secular Sunni politician Mithal al-Alusi speaks during an election campaign rally ahead of March 7 parliamentary elections in Baghdad February 27, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR2AZUB

Iraqi secularists under attack ahead of elections

Ali Mamouri

Iraqi Jews in Israel watch protests with hope

Lujain Elbaldawi

Lujain Elbaldawi