Jabar

In June of 2003, Jabar returned to Baghdad for the first time in almost twenty-five years.

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Faleh Jabar and Sami Zubaida allowed me to bask in their generous, wide-ranging intellects and their memories of old Baghdad.

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Faleh Jabar grew up in Baghdad during the golden age of Abu Nuwas Street.

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Every evening, Jabar and his circle of friends would gather at Abu Nuwas and spend long summer nights drinking, talking, exchanging books and arguments and ideas.

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“The traditional Ibn Khaldun view is that there are two kinds of people: the city dwellers and the nomads, always in conflict,” Faleh Jabar, a prominent Iraqi sociologist and author, told me.

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The old fisherman told Jabar he would wake at dawn every day, go to the fish market in Karada to buy bunni, and bring them all the way to the river, where he would put them in a pool to keep them alive—just to grill masquf by the side of a river too polluted to fish from.

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"Iraq is not Lebanon," said Faleh A. Jabar, a Beirut-based Iraqi scholar and researcher on Shiites.

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Abdul Jabar Taqwa complained the raid hadn't been coordinated with the Afghan government, despite repeated requests by President Hamid Karzai's administration to do so.

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The provincial council ordered flags lowered to half staff and a three-day mourning period, said council head Jabar Amin.

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But then, looking closer, Jabar saw a gap in the fence.

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