Mortada Al-hudod

Reports

Iraq's deer threatened by hunger: Who will save the gazelles of Ali Al-Gharbi? 

The Iraqi authorities are procrastinating in providing half a kilogram of barley for al-reem, Iraq’s Arabian sand gazelles. The Iraqi natural reserves are not regulated by law and lack financial allocations and forage for their animals.

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Breathing life into a dead language: what remains of colloquial Mandaic in Iraq 

In the Iraqi dialect, when someone says, “I went home”, tabeet al-bayt, or “I entered the house,” dasheet al-bayt, half of what they are saying is in the Mandaean language. When a folk poet recites a poem about his mother’s sheela, it is taken from sheyala, which is the head covering of a Mandaean woman. The same applies to a singer who begins with “Woe, Woe”. Breathing life into a dead language: what remains of Mandaean dialect in Iraq

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“Officials mediate livestock slaughtering”: Hemorrhagic Fever, a clan of viruses threatening animals and humans 

Dhi Qar is facing a vicious insect that transmits the hemorrhagic fever virus, but it has only a few doctors and veterinary teams to combat it. Thus, a deadly disease is spreading among sheep breeders, butchers, cooks, and consumers of meat, threatening the governorate with a lockdown. The story of how officials are mediating in relation to suspected infected animals and what the disease does to animals and humans.

Stories

“Three a day”... Youth of Tishreen treat drug addiction with “Secrecy”

“Three political entities offered funding for the group’s activities, but we refused”, said Amjad Hussein, member of a voluntary group that treats addicts in a city blighted by drugs where dealers operate with no deterrence or fear. This is the story of ambitious young revolutionaries who went on to treat drug addicts.