iraqiana:

مباشرة ببناء دار الاوبرا العراقيه ..
بين جسر السنك والجمهوريه .. بغداد

Baghdad ready to start the construction on the new Iraqi Opera House

The Zawraa Tower in Zawraa Central Park in Baghdad. This is next to the Baghdad Zoo. The top part used to have a rotating restaurant with beautiful views of Karkh (west side) part of Baghdad. I hope it still works.  

Via Iraqiana via dreamerali via www.rasoulali.com:

Zora Tower Iraq .. Baghdad Photography Rasoul Ali برج الزوراء العراق.. بغداد تصوير رسول علي www.rasoulali.com on Flickr.

Zora Tower
Iraq .. Baghdad
Photography
Rasoul Ali
برج الزوراء
العراق.. بغداد
تصوير
رسول علي
www.rasoulali.com

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One of the Milestones on ‘Darb Zubayda’ (Zubayda’s Road) - the pilgrimage road from Kufa (Najaf now south of Baghdad, Iraq) to the holy city of Makkah. Done around 780 AD as a noble project by Queen Zubaidah the famous wife of the most prominent Abbasid Caliphates ‘Harun Al-Rasheed’ - the road which no longer exists carries her name.

واحدة من معالم درب زبيدة - طريق الحج من الكوفة (النجف الأشرف) إلى مكة المكرمة الذي طور في العصر العباسي و بالذات على يد زبيدة (زوجة الخليفة العباسي الشهير هارون الرشيد) . وضعت في حوالي ٨٠٠م

In 751, al-Saffah, the first Abbasid caliph, ordered fire signals and milestones established from Kufa to Makkah. His successor, Mansur, ordered additional forts built. Mansur’s successor, al-Mahdi, undertook projects to clear and level the way. By 776, the passage could be made so quickly—at least under demonstration circumstances—that al-Mahdi had ice delivered to him in Makkah from Iraq.

The most generous patrons, however, were the storied caliph Harun al-Rashid, who ruled from 786 to 809, and his equally famous wife Zubayda. The caliph made the pilgrimage six or nine times, including the one in 790 which, in fulfillment of a vow, he made entirely on foot. His final one, performed in 804, was the last Hajj ever made by a caliph.

Zubayda was responsible for 2 projects, first established abundant drinking water in Makkah, and the second built at least 10 new rest stops and three new way stations along the route, as well as a number of water tanks. Ever since, the route has been known as Darb Zubayda (“Zubayda’s Way”). At its height, the route included milestones (one of which is this one shown here from the Riyadh national museum now touring at the smithsonian), 54 major way stations with cisterns, reservoirs or wells, fire signal towers, hostels and fortresses—all paid for by the Abbasid treasury.

Ceramic Vessels from the ninth century from Basra Iraq decorated with silver and copper - a revolutionary advancement at the time for ceramic decoration.

قارورات فخارية من البصرة العراق مزينة بطريقة مخترعة جديدة في ذالك الوقت بالفضة و النحاس. من القرن التاسع بعد الميلاد

Iraqi Food
بورك، كبة حامض، هبيط، تمن جزر
Carrot rice (with spices), Iraqi Lemon Kubba (rice meat balls stuffed with ground meat & stuff), slow cooked lamb and potatoes, and boorek