Sentences with phrase «from iraq»

Al - Badry similarly felt a strong disconnect between his lived experiences as a refugee from Iraq, and his new reality in Nebraska following his relocation.

Saatchi was born into a Jewish family and was still a preschooler when his family emigrated from Iraq to London.

Dick Cheney also puts in an appearance across the room, along with Bush himself, as tapestry cherubs, and wall medallions depict scenes from Iraq.

Mamou's mother, who is Polish - American, and Mamou's father, who is a Christian - Chaldean from Iraq, raised her multiculturally.

The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist a project that Rakowitz started in 2006 that attempts to recreate over 7,000 archaeological artefacts looted from the Iraq Museum during the war or destroyed in its aftermath.

Her more recent work, from 2007, called I Was In Baghdad Ochre Fade, is based on the transcriptions of documents from the Iraq War while her Redaction Paintings series from 2008 features declassified memos and much of the text is blacked out and censored.

Martha Rosler in her collage photographs, Kim Jones's doodles, and Nancy Spero's Hours of the Night all do their part toward what Rosler calls Bringing the War Home — all the way from Iraq, via the TV screens of America.

A burnt - out car from Iraq and a 100ft high peace sign seeking place on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth

There were four losing artists on the shortlist: Jeremy Deller and his plan for a burned - out car from Iraq, Tracey Emin's meerkats, Anish Kapoor's sky - reflecting mirrors and Bob & Roberta Smith's 100ft peace sign.

Jennifer Karady works with American veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to create staged narrative photographs that depict their individual stories and address their adjustment to civilian life.

So it brings together luster - painted pottery through this migration journey — from Iraq, from Egypt, from Iran, from Syria, from Spain — and then you see it through a thread of light.

Immigration in Israel is depicted by Ruth Orkin in a touching 1951 portrait of three Jewish teenage refugees from Iraq, their faces pressed up against a window as they arrive in Tel Aviv.

There is no more appropriate moment to examine new and recent contemporary art from Iraq and we are privileged that this talk will be led by curator and Director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, Jonathan Watkins, who curated the highly acclaimed Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2013.

Excerpt — Queens Museum of Art The contemporary Middle Eastern and Central Asian works in the «Tarjama / Translation» exhibition mince no words when it comes to hot - button political issues (many of the featured artists hail from Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan and Lebanon).

For example, I participated in the 2002 Tirana Biennale representing Greece, during a heavily turbulent political period for the Balkans with refugees flooding in from the Balkan region, as well as many political asylum seekers from Iraq.

Converging on Venice from Iraq, Iceland, Azerbaijan, and beyond, they came, they showed — and they posed for photos Read More

From last year's Venice Biennale to this summer's New Museum show, more and more exhibitions are spotlighting contemporary art from Iraq Read More

Game developers around the world are protesting U.S. President Donald Trump's order banning refugees and barring citizens from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen from entering the United States for 90 days.

Developed by the Canadian studio, Radical Entertainment, that also developed the first game, the game features Sgt James Heller who returns home to NYZ (New York Zero) from Iraq a bitter, -LSB-...]

They varied from a 9 - year - old girl to a 65 - year - old man, from a marine serving duty overseas, to a soldier returning from Iraq.

Follow a trail of intrigue that leads from Iraq to a high - security building in Washington.

Various real world locations: 12 multiplayer and cooperative maps that take place in 6 distinctive environments ranging from Iraq to Afghanistan to Somalia.

16th — I have some chapters included on a book on Crossing World Borders in South America 17th — I am featured for my article on a bus tour of Vilnius Lithuania 21st — I submitted a photo from Iraq to a post on The World Through People's Eyes on Due Cuorie Unaciccions.com 22nd — I submitted my trip to Persepolis in an article on disappointing travel destinations for Getting Stamped with Hannah and Adam

Military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are providing shelter dogs with basic obedience training.

Like many service members returning from war, Army Capt. Sam Wilson brought back from Iraq mental images and experiences that made home life a struggle.

In the past year year, Baghdad Pups has brought 79 dogs and cats from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Marlee was well received at the hospital, and I think she was a source of inspiration for some of the brave veterans who are returning from the Iraq war with missing limbs and other disabilities.

An estimated 460,000 veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan war alone, struggle with PTSD or TBI, which can lead to sleeplessness, depression, anger, anxiety and isolation.

A World War II veteran who was held for a year in a Nazi prisoner camp has made it his mission to help supply wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with service dogs.

I had been wanting a therapy dog to work with PTSD veterans, because my husband suffered from PTSD severely himself after coming home from Iraq and exiting the Marines.

The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that approximately 30 % of the veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

When Gabe Nutter returned from Iraq with PTSD, he was sure that he could handle it himself.

K - 9 Veteran Flown Home - Icar comes home from Iraq, saved by his former handler who meets him at the airport.

In fact, experts believe PTSD has impacted 11 to 20 percent of returning veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs website.

With increasingly more service members expected to return from Iraq in the months ahead, the assistance offered by VA loans could be especially timely — not just for these returning service members and recent veterans, but also for the housing market in general.

Defense stocks are, in general, depressed right now as it is widely anticipated that defense spending in the US will decrease over the next several years due to the troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the general pressure for budget cuts due to the federal deficit.

Matt began advocating for the effective treatment of post-traumatic stress syndrome in returning vets after his own step - brother committed suicide after returning from Iraq.

Tate Heston returns home from Iraq when his beloved career is cut short by an IED.

Logan Thibault returns home from Iraq committed to locating an American woman whose picture he found there.

The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq, and newly - minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it's happening - through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands.

He has done freelance reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, and has lived in and traveled through over thirty countries.

«The guys from Vietnam are so expressive, but the new ones, from Iraq and Afghanistan, go straight to violence and suicide,» the woman says.

Set in Egypt after the overthrow of Mubarak, the book focuses on a young woman who has escaped from Iraq but finds herself rootless in Egypt.

The first Kindle I bought — a K2 in 2010 — was from a soldier returned home from Iraq.

I really wanted to get him this phone now that he has just returned from Iraq) = Maybe he will accept a picture of it and an IOU.

There is no easy exit from Iraq for America.

When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, «the prolonged destruction of a personality.»

With the awarding of the Pulitzer to Woods for his ten - part original series on soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, even journalists who made snide comments about news blogs had to admit that it was an award well deserved.

In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper's Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq (2005), by Jeanette Winter, brings the same story to younger readers.