so far, no clear analysis of political events in iran in the context of khwarazm in the third and fourth centuries ah/ tenth century has been achieved. the mistake, the political families of the ancient rule of the al-ma'mun, the continuity of all the ancient al afrygh are enumerated. so al- afrygh and al-iraq also have as a rule! while there is an aura of historical ambiguities, not a cit...

1College of Medicine, Tikrit, Iraq. 2Public Health Laboratory, Al-Tameem, Iraq. 3Directorate of Health, Al-Tameem, Iraq. Received: 12/02/2002; accepted: 14/05/2002 ABSTRACT To determine the rates of malarial infection in different areas of Al-Tameem province, we conducted a cross-sectional study from 1991 to 2000. We found an overall infection rate of 0.76% by Plasmodium vivax. Infection rates ...

the present article is an attempt to familiarize with ashoura political poetry in the iraq contemporary literature. the emphasis is on hassen al senaid poetry as one of the most important remonstrant poets in iraq. the method of reading the revolutionary – political poetry which is related to the iraqi poet is inductive – analytical. the results have shown that the most important aim of the poe...

abstract satire is one of the methods of expressing in literature that is used in two ways of direct and indirect. among these two methods, the second one is used more by the poets and writers because it helps them escaping from being face to face with the governments and their organizations. concerning the iraqi government and its cruel policies on those days, using first kind of satire was pr...

Leishmaniasis is endemic in 88 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America (Dedet et al., 2003). There are an estimated 12 million cases worldwide and there are about 1.5 million new cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) each year of which over 90% occur in Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Brazil and Peru (Ashford et al., 1992). Old World disease ...

1Department of Medicine; 2Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to A.M. Al-Abbassi: [email protected]). Received: 26/06/02; accepted: 15/09/04 ABSTRACT An epidemic of cholera in Iraq was anticipated for the year 1999 and a plan of notification and treatment of cases of diarrhoea was made. This paper documents the clinical a...

From the Department of Community Medicine (Al-Rubaii, Al-Ward) and the Department of Dermatology and Venereology (Al-Waiz), College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Bab-Al-Mu’adham, Baghdad, Iraq. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Makram Al-Waiz, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, PO Box 61301, Postal Code 12114, Bab-AlMu’a...

the current study examines contradictions in muhammad mahdi al-jawahiri’s political poetry. al-jawahiri led most of his life amidst the turmoil caused by the political events and developments that iraq has undergone through different periods beginning with the 1920 revolution led by religious leaders and ending with al-ba‘th party and saddam hussein. al-jawahiri has beencontradictory in his poe...

BACKGROUND Military fatalities occur in clusters, and causes differ between theatres of operation or within-theatre over time. AIM Based on around 500 coalition deaths, identify major causes in Iraq and Afghanistan. For consecutive periods (1: May 1 to September 17, 2006, 2: September 18, 2006 to February 4, 2007), ascertain UK and others' numbers deployed to compare fatality rates per 1000-p...

The water salinity of the Euphrates River as it enters Iraq, expressed as total dissolved solids (TDS), has more than doubled compared to that of 1973. Downstream of Al Hindia Barrage, south of Baghdad, the salinity has increased gradually over the last 30 years. The annual average TDS at Al Nassiriah, in the lower reaches of the Euphrates, has increased from 1,080 ppm in 1979 to more than 4,50...