Twitter account posts pictures of Iraq before the wars

Published August 18th, 2016 - 11:14 GMT

Daesh (ISIS), Daesh and Daesh. That’s what Iraq is primarily in the news for nowadays as government and allied militia forces fight to take territory from the Islamic militant group, along with help from the US-led coalition and Iran. Possible independence of Iraqi Kurdistan and protests against the government of Haider al-Abadi make the news too, among other stories.

What doesn’t appear in the headlines is what Iraq used to look like before war plagued the country. Enter the Old Iraqi Pictures Twitter account, with its handle @IraqiPic. “Our country is the most beautiful,” reads the account description, and it has over 9,000 followers to date. @IraqiPic tweets daily pics of Iraqi life in the 20th century, including from the more peaceful time before the 1980 Iran-Iraq War, the 1991 Gulf War, and the conflicts which followed. Iraq was quite the different place before then: a regional center of education, culture, medicine, etc. Take a look at some of the account’s most stunning images of Iraq’s past, courtesy of @IraqiPic.

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An Ottoman palace in Baghdad. Like much of the Arab world, Iraq was ruled by Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.

The Al-Khidr mosque in Mosul, along the Tigris river. Iraq is known as the “land of the two rivers,” the other being the Euphrates.

The opening of the Majidiyah Hospital in Baghdad, 1900.

The Al-Rafidain Bank in downtown Baghdad, 1958.

Much of the accounts tweets focuses on the role of Iraqi women in society, celebrating their past contributions to medicine and other fields. Here are some female medicine students at Baghdad University in 1978.

Not all of the pics are from major cities, and some depict the country’s agricultural sector.

And @IraqiPic tweets breathtaking images from modern-day Iraq too. Here is Gali Ali Beg, a waterfall in Iraqi Kurdistan.

While the images may remind viewers of the contrast between the past and Iraq’s current state of violence, parts of the country have seen violence drop significantly, including Kirkuk, pictured here.

The construction of the Aliyah Queen bridge in 1955.

Men playing traditional dabke music in Kirkuk in 1980. For @IraqiPic, the pictures represent Iraq’s rich history, and through posting them it hopes to not lose sight of that.

An Ottoman palace in Baghdad. Like much of the Arab world, Iraq was ruled by Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.

The Al-Khidr mosque in Mosul, along the Tigris river. Iraq is known as the “land of the two rivers,” the other being the Euphrates.

The opening of the Majidiyah Hospital in Baghdad, 1900.

The Al-Rafidain Bank in downtown Baghdad, 1958.

Much of the accounts tweets focuses on the role of Iraqi women in society, celebrating their past contributions to medicine and other fields. Here are some female medicine students at Baghdad University in 1978.

Not all of the pics are from major cities, and some depict the country’s agricultural sector.

And @IraqiPic tweets breathtaking images from modern-day Iraq too. Here is Gali Ali Beg, a waterfall in Iraqi Kurdistan.

While the images may remind viewers of the contrast between the past and Iraq’s current state of violence, parts of the country have seen violence drop significantly, including Kirkuk, pictured here.

The construction of the Aliyah Queen bridge in 1955.

Men playing traditional dabke music in Kirkuk in 1980. For @IraqiPic, the pictures represent Iraq’s rich history, and through posting them it hopes to not lose sight of that.

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Twitter account posts pictures of Iraq before the wars

An Ottoman palace in Baghdad. Like much of the Arab world, Iraq was ruled by Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.

The Al-Khidr mosque in Mosul, along the Tigris river. Iraq is known as the “land of the two rivers,” the other being the Euphrates.

The opening of the Majidiyah Hospital in Baghdad, 1900.

The Al-Rafidain Bank in downtown Baghdad, 1958.

Much of the accounts tweets focuses on the role of Iraqi women in society, celebrating their past contributions to medicine and other fields. Here are some female medicine students at Baghdad University in 1978.

Not all of the pics are from major cities, and some depict the country’s agricultural sector.

And @IraqiPic tweets breathtaking images from modern-day Iraq too. Here is Gali Ali Beg, a waterfall in Iraqi Kurdistan.

While the images may remind viewers of the contrast between the past and Iraq’s current state of violence, parts of the country have seen violence drop significantly, including Kirkuk, pictured here.

The construction of the Aliyah Queen bridge in 1955.

Men playing traditional dabke music in Kirkuk in 1980. For @IraqiPic, the pictures represent Iraq’s rich history, and through posting them it hopes to not lose sight of that.

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