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In the 1930s and 1940s, female College students gradually started to appear unveiled, [15] and most upper- and middle class urban women in Iraq were said to be unveiled by 1963. [17] In Ba'athist Iraq (1968-2003), the Secular Socialist Baath Party women were officially stated to be equal to men, and urban women were normally unveiled.
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998; Long title: An Act to establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq. Acronyms (colloquial) ILA: Nicknames: Iraq Liberation Act of 1998: Enacted by: the 105th United States Congress: Effective: October 31, 1998: Citations; Public law: 105-338: Statutes at Large: 112 Stat. 3178: Codification; Titles ...
Women in Iraq at the beginning of the 21st century face a status that is influenced by many factors, including wars (most recently the Iraq War), sectarian religious conflict, debates concerning Islamic law and Iraq's Constitution, cultural traditions, and modern secularism. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women have been widowed as a result of ...
On February 5, 2003, the Secretary of State of the United States Colin Powell gave a PowerPoint presentation [1] [2] to the United Nations Security Council. He explained the rationale for the Iraq War which would start on March 19, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq. The decision to invade Iraq had already been made prior to the presentation being ...
Sanctions against Iraq 1990–2003; Iraqi uprisings 1991; Iraqi no-fly zones conflict 1991–2003; Iraq disarmament crisis 1991–2003; Arms-to-Iraq affair 1992–1996; Iraq Liberation Act 1998; September 11 attacks 2001; U.S. anthrax attacks 2001; U.S. invasion of Afghanistan 2001; Alleged Prague connection 2001; Iraq Resolution 2002; Wood ...
The 2003 invasion of Iraq [b] was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, [ 24 ] including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a United States-led combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded the Republic of Iraq .
Four senior ISIS leaders were killed in last month's U.S.-Iraqi military raid in western Iraq including the group's top operations leader in Iraq and its chief bombmaker for whom the United States ...
Laura Boushnak (Arabic: لورا بشناق; born 1976) is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer whose work is focused on women, literacy, and education reform in the Arab world. For her ongoing documentary project "I Read I Write" she photographed girls and women changing their lives with education in Egypt , Yemen , Kuwait , Jordan and ...