At Arbil arts festival, 'Iraq is more than blood'
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Amid deep-seated themes of suffering, Iraqi artists expressed a different face of their country through their creative work.
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ARBIL, Iraq  - Thousands of Kurds, many of them students, marched on the U.N. offices in the Kurdish capital Arbil on Thursday to protest the Turkish parliament's authorization of military incursions into northern Iraq.
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News reports on Iraq paint a picture of a country trapped in a cycle of violence and destruction. The sceptics and nay-sayers don&#39;t believe Iraqis are ready for democracy.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives - and why the U.S. should let more in
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The National Endowment for the Arts earlier this year asked U.S. soldiers and their families to write down what they saw, heard and felt during the Iraq war for a program called "Operation Homecoming." The reflections compiled to date offer a poignant glimpse into soldiers' lives and how they are affected by war.
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Interim government officials in Iraq say it is becoming more apparent to everyone in the country that elections will be held in January, despite the widespread insurgency in the country.
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Playwrights and comedians at the  world's largest arts festival have boldly marched into the  minefield of religious extremism this year to explode myths and  destroy taboos.
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In a region famed for its dates and poets, Sheik Adnan Aidani confronts a constellation of religious and political forces that hold sway in Iraq's fiercely traditional countryside and that may prove decisive in Sunday's election for parliament.
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Publisher Fakhri Karim is using his influence and wealth to fuel a cultural revival in Iraq.
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Since the invasion of Iraq, the people of the region find themselves in the face of scenes that exceed the threshold of tolerance of most of them.
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An Iraq war tale has taken top honors at a Spanish film festival. The film, titled "Turtles Can Fly," is about Iraqi villagers desperate for a satellite dish as they await the U-S invasion.
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MADRID, Spain - A film about Iraqi villagers desperate for a satellite dish as they await the U.S. invasion won the top prize Saturday at Spain's leading film festival...
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Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favorites for awards at this year's Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number of male leads have stood out.
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Jo Tatchell: Iraq: Soldiers. Brutality. War. Futility. Secrets. The images of the dusty, war-torn land are all too familiar.
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The world has seen more images from  the war in Iraq than of any conflict in history, from film of  tanks advancing on Baghdad to digital pictures of prisoner  abuse, but artist Steve Mumford is offering something else.
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A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
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AP Correspondent Kim Gamel covers Iraq events from Baghdad for The Associated Press and attended the Fourth of July celebration held by the U.S. Embassy.