Iraqi Women's Tales Brought to NY Stage
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One moment an Iraqi teen-ager dances  to pop band 'N Snyc, the next a decrepit hunched street seller  describes the looting in Baghdad and then a sexy bohemian  painter tells how she survived Saddam.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- A second Iraqi woman emerged yesterday leveling charges of rape against Iraqi security forces, breaking a taboo here about disclosing sexual violence and further undermining public perceptions about the security forces.
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In the Beirut beauty salon where most of âCaramelâ takes place, women of various shapes, sizes, ages and backgrounds gather to bond and gossip.
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It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting, but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.
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BAGHDAD -- Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher, and powder.
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Afghan women in New York have had to strike a balance growing up in a comparatively freewheeling society with parents who have held tight to their Afghan conventions.
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Attacks and attempted attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion:
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MAHMUDIYA, Iraq  - The Iraqi woman at the center   of a rape-murder inquiry by the U.S. military was no more than   16 years old when she was killed along with her parents and   young sister four months ago, the local mayor said on Monday.
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A new film about a meeting between two  mothers over the deaths of their daughters in Jerusalem, a New  York play set in the West Bank and a ceramic art exhibit are  each being hailed for getting Israelis and Palestinians to talk  to each other.
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Three New York theater productions offer contrasting coming-of-age tales.
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-Two Indonesian women, Rosidah binti Anan and Rafikan binti Aming, and two Lebanese men. Video broadcast Sept. 30 shows them being held at gunpoint by masked men and claims responsibility in the name of the Islamic Army in Iraq.
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Why are a growing number of young women in this relatively safe corner of Iraq showing up in local hospitals, dying of suspicious burns?
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BAGHDAD -- Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.
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Arts & entertainment: The ENO has put on a 1950s musical that asks how anybody could be unhappy in Baghdad. What were they thinking, asks Charlotte Higgins.
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If "Voices of Iraq" cannot claim to represent the political "truth" about the war, it certainly provides an unprecedented glimpse into the texture of daily life there.
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Excerpts from the screenplays of âJuno,â âNo Country for Old Menâ and âAway From Her.â
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 21 -- Two attacks on vehicles carrying Iraqi women to their jobs Thursday morning claimed the lives of six women and one man and severely wounded more than a dozen people, witnesses and government officials said.