Author: Magdalena Ebertz

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Fadwa Suleiman speaking by telephone to the Arab television channel Al Arabiya

The Syrian Actress Fadwa Suleiman

''I Became A Threat to the Regime''

Syrian actress and activist Fadwa Suleiman was one of the first Syrian celebrities to take to the streets to protest against the Assad regime. She is now in exile in France. Magdalena Ebertz spoke to her in ParisMore

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1. Followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith performs rituals along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for them, in Baghdad, Iraq. Until 2003, nearly all the world’s Mandaeans lived in Iraq, but the cycles of conflict since the U.S. invasion have driven minorities out of the country for security reasons and economic opportunity

Mandaean religious rites threatened by Tigris water pollution

Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify their souls. But unlike in ancient times, the storied river that runs through Baghdad is fouled by untreated sewage and dead carp. By Philip Issa