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Baghdad stands on the Tigris amid palm groves and flat plains, a vast round-planned capital turned sprawling metropolis. Caliph al-Mansur's founding in 762 and its House of Wisdom (early research library) made learning its myth, later shadowed by invasion and war. Green Zone and The Thief of Bagdad sit on its shelf. Open Baghdad on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 28 books, 18 movies and 3 games set in Baghdad.
Exhalation: Stories
An alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In The Merchant and the…
Green Zone
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert.…
The Thief of Bagdad
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S -led attack on the "most…
Dispatches From The Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but…
The Navigator
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer,…
مأساة الحلاج
مأساة الحلاج مسرحية شعرية من تأليف الشاعر المصري صلاح عبد الصبور تناول فيها شخصية المنصور بن حسين الحلاج المتصوف الذي عاش في منتصف القرن الثالث للهجرة. تتكون المسرحية من فصلين سماهما عبد الصبور أجزاء. الجزء الأول:…
Fables & Reflections
Fables & Reflections (1993) is the sixth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. It was written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Bryan Talbot, Stan Woch, P. Craig Russell, Shawn McManus, John…
وحدها شجرة الرمان
تنفتح رواية الكاتب العراقي سنان انطون «وحدها شجرة الرمان» (المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر) بسردية حكائية بسيطة تفاجئك احياناً بانعطافاتها إلى صور حلمية فنتازية، متقطّعة بحسب خطوات السيناريو السينمائي، على مشهديات الموت…
Live from Baghdad
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson starring Michael Keaton and Helena…
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