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Facebook Throwback, DSM Party 🎈 2019

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Bedor Alobaidi/ Interested to ask me a question? Please go ahead. I will be more than happy to do my best in answering if it's something related to my personal knowledge.    Once upon a time, a lovely unveiling cover party gathering in Des Moines, Iowa along with nice, intellectual, interesting and very creative minds, and lovely social butterflies allover the place.  Miss such days, when the life was real good but perhaps we weeent thankful enough back then until we preached the level of depressing timing due to the insanity of the pendmaic and some other unfortunate, challenging shifts in pretty much all aspects of life, worldwide speaking.  I just realized that it happened I haven’t shared this photo during the time of the event a year ago, yet I did share some posts and photos here and elsewhere.  So, I thought it doesn’t bother to share this with you all. For the sake of sharing a good photo of mine.  Just to give me another reason to view and see myself, how I was in the pas

Opinion Piece: An Open Invitation To The Self To Be True

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Bedor Alobaidi/ Interested to ask me a question? Please go ahead. I will be more than happy to do my best in answering if it's something related to my personal knowledge.  Over the time, perhaps over the last couple years I have been discovering many little things that I haven’t Paid attention to for whatever reason was in the past which kept me busy with other things in life rather than spending time on the little things that could just tell me few words about what path I’m talking, or used to take and leaded me to almost nowhere which is something I am not afraid or feel hesitant to tell and to express it all out. It is not a secret, and it not something big either; but just the realization of what I have missed in the past whether I’ve done it myself purposely or not, whether it was something I had control on or absolutely not. Still, the idea is all about restoring the old “Me” for really long time, sometimes there is not anything exciting about it.. But it is worth it, if me

Opinion Piece by the Iraqi Novelist Ali Bader about the Author Hassan Blasim

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Bedor Alobaidi/ Interested to ask me a question? Please go ahead. I will be more than happy to do my best in answering if it's something related to my personal knowledge.  English Translation By Bedor Alobaidi  The Iraqi Author Hassan Blasim has posted today in his regular daily posts on Facebook an opinion piece written by the well-known novelist Ali Bader and he started it the introductory as follows:  " So far, the Iraqi press has not touched down nor come close to my books because according to them they consider my work  "An abominations from the work of satan". But, it is enough for me and I am relieved by a well-known, distinguished and creative Iraqi novelist like Ali Bader who writes about my stories:" ( Hassan Blasim )....  Ali Bader:  I can hardly find a free writer like Hassan Belasim, who launches his wings to fly in every direction aimlessly, untitled, with no approach, no classifications. He was not interested in any classification, any literary g

The Blind Water by Iraqi Writer/Storyteller Hassan Blasim

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A Section from the Blind Water  Originally written in Arabic by the Iraqi Writer/Storyteller and poet:  Hassan Balasim  Translation To English by: Bedor Alobaidi  Hassan Blasim/Iraqi Writer, Storyteller. poet and cinema script writer A few days ago, I received a letter from a disturbed writer explaining contemporary writing in a religious tone. I think the man's heart breaks a pain in the way how I write sperm. I also guessed that he is one of the peaceful writers who writes in order to enter the Academy of Clean Arabic Writing. Pure, and well mashed in a grammar mills. I think the man is a loyal language guard with an honest intention. I don't know what the language and the rest of the holy cows would be like without these writers. I think that if I left things for a writer like me, they would milk the cow to the last drop and slaughter it in the middle of the afternoon in front of the slaves.  What really bothered me in his letter was his medical tone, as what the wounds of t

The Cup of Life

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Written originally in Arabic by Suad Al-Jazairi  English Translation: Bedor Alobaidi                   Bedor Alobaidi / Suad Al-Jazairi             What is left from yesterday's cup? There are teardrops at the bottom of that cup, afraid of each other, Wet with water of grief and seeds of disappointmenti I will plant them in dry soil waiting for rain. On the edge of the cup are remnants of love ; stories that are not suitable to be published ,because, they were written on an old paper that crumbled at the touch and the ends of the stories are amputated... In the cup there is a house of a poem that I forgot on an abandoned sidewalk, waiting for a drunk poet to pass by with his old rhyme. I crossed with my right foot from my yesterday to the day, His door was locked, and a paper written in a poor script was hanged in the doorbell that says: (Today is out of service, due to a technical failure, as its time has stopped). What did you throw for tomorrow othe

Dina Al Bayati

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"I respect all religions and religious beliefs. However, if these practices interfere with politics in Iraq and many of them drive extremism and terrorism as a tool such as religious references, and others - #new_actions must be taken to stop these groups and individuals." Dina Al Bayati  Dina Al Bayati was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1995 She graduated from the University of Houston, Texas, with a Bachelor's degree in: International Business Administration. Currently she is working on completing her postgraduate studies in the field of security policy. She has a strong voice and presence in the societal and political affairs, where she worked in several refugee organizations, as well as advocacy for several issues concerning translators who worked with US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan for the special visa program for the US Congress and several issues related to combating terrorism in Iraq. Al-Bayati evaluates, as well as several other activities re

Corona Virus Has Taken Away the Soul of Iraqi Football Legend Captain Ahmed Radhi, Today in Baghdad

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Written and published by: Bedor Alobaidi  Rest In Peace  ✌️  captain Ahmed Radhi, we are still under shock and cannot believe you really gone that quick, this is just way too early for you.  Seriously unbelievable  ☹️ 🤲 You’re one of the countable names who have made his name due to his achievements in the Iraqi football field nationally and internationally.  When we talk about sports especially and the rising stars who have made a significant difference in Modern Iraq  🇮🇶  history, your name must’ve been recognized and men tioned and it is a must be of presence. You were one of the fewest names who had the incredible ability to draw big smiles on all the Iraqi people, all Iraqi citizens inside the country without forgetting many of those who have been immigrated to other countries and parts of the world and whenever we say the word football  ⚽️  your name kicks in the head right away! Generations of Iraqi youth as well as the people around the Arab region

Research Process Journal

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Library Instruction course, I took it on December of 2012 at Des Moines Area Community College. It helped me big time during my research journey in college and after transferring to the university. I would assume that this course should be available everywhere especially here in the United States and available in community colleges or even High schools based on what I heard few  years back from some students.  Highly recomandded, because this is considered a master class through a whole semester that you can take a learn all the steps, techniques and seek well written paper for a certain research subject or even an outside project that you may do independently on your own as a personal studies that might might be developed into graduate levels, or taking those writings that includes other sources and get them published on a book, online, etc.   Research Process Journal Week 1: Information literacy, Introduction to the research process After watching the Info wh