TSR Iraqi Society
Chat for students with international ancestry and overseas students.
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Re: TSR Iraqi SocietyIt looks very nice. I'd love to see Zaha Hadid do some work in Iraq. For the time being, this is a lot closer to my 'hood
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Re: TSR Iraqi SocietyOver my dead body. Also, I don't like 3amba.(Original post by Tzarchasm)
Anyone tried pacha?
Though my mum cooked it last year, my little brother woke me up telling me "Agolich...I think they killed someone downstairs. There is a head in the pot!" -
Re: TSR Iraqi SocietyAnd the rest go into their pockets...but it's nice, at least this time we get something.(Original post by maljebo)
i bet it only cost like 200million to actually build it
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Re: TSR Iraqi Societyhell no. I'm very conservative with what I eat. No chance in hell I'm going to be sitting there with a sheep's head looking at me.(Original post by Tzarchasm)
Anyone tried pacha? -
Re: TSR Iraqi SocietyI always pronounced it as bacha.(Original post by Tzarchasm)
Anyone tried pacha?
And to answer your question.. hell no!
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Re: TSR Iraqi SocietyHow did your mum manage that?(Original post by Sushidelight)
Over my dead body. Also, I don't like 3amba.
Though my mum cooked it last year, my little brother woke me up telling me "Agolich...I think they killed someone downstairs. There is a head in the pot!"
I'm almost certain that mine would cook a human being before cooking pacha. My dad (along with a lot of the men in my family) has had it before. -
Re: TSR Iraqi Society
This is for Baghdad, the place of my mothers birth
The cradle of civilization, for what it’s worth
The land I’ve never the seen, culture I’ve never known
Iraq is in my heart, my blood, my flesh and bones
The air I’ve never breathed, fragrance I’ve never smelled
The pride I never had, the nationality that I never felt
Saddam was bad, are the American’s even more so?
They made me grow like I was missing part of my torso
But I never picked up a grenade in my garden
I never saw people I love die starving
I never saw my family die through many years of sanctions
While the ruler’s family lived in palaces and mansions
Never had a family member kidnapped for a ransom
Never lost a friend to violence that was random
Bombings,occupation,torture,inti midation
A million dead people doesn’t equal liberation
Close my eyes, I can still hear my ummi saying
Listen!
Where is our freedom?
Forget division based on ethnicity or religion
Whether you Sunni, Shia, Kurdish or Christian
Pain is still pain if you’re a person that’s missing
We all deserve a life in this earth that we live in
Is there enough words that can say
How deeply Baghdad is burning today?
And it’s not about pity, hands out or sympathy
It’s about pride, respect, honour and dignity
Babies being born with deformities from uranium
Those babies aren’t just Iraqi, they’re Mesopotamian
What I view on the news is making me shiver
Cause I look at the victims and see the same face in the mirror
This system of division makes it harder for you and me
Peace is a question, the only answer is unity!
So many dreams about this place that I’ve never seen
The place my family had to leave in the 70’s
Close my eyes, I can still hear my ummi saying
Where is our freedom?
It rains white phosphorus in Fallujah
This is for those that won’t live to see the future
Sorry that I wasn’t there, Sorry that I couldn’t help
I’m sorry for every tear, Sorry you’ve been put through hell
Still I feel like an immigrant,englishman amongst arabs and an arab amongst englishmen
Like I said they never gave me the culture
But they did give me Kubdad Haleb,Hakaka and Dolma
Ana isme Kareem,
Wa ohmre thalatha wa-’ishrun,
Umi min Baghdad, wa abuya min Dover,
And that’s the combination that I carry on my shoulders
Still I rep, till my death, Till they kill and seal my flesh
From now all the way back to Gilgamesh
Such a villianized and criticized nation
You will always be the cradle of civilization
Close my eyes, I can still hear my ummi saying
Where is our freedom?
In my sleep, in my dreams Motherland I can still feel you calling me
In my sleep, in my dreams Motherland I can still feel you calling me
I can still feel you calling me
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Re: TSR Iraqi SocietyGod knows. To make matters worse, they kept describing how nice it was "Ohh the eyes" "Ohh the tongue" ....put me off my pizza.(Original post by Retrospect)
How did your mum manage that?
I'm almost certain that mine would cook a human being before cooking pacha. My dad (along with a lot of the men in my family) has had it before.
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Re: TSR Iraqi SocietyI have this song in my profile.(Original post by Sushidelight)

I love this bit:
Like I said they never gave me the culture
But they did give me Kubdad Haleb,Hakaka and Dolma

