Two mortar rounds hit Baghdad near the convention centre where ... any casualties or damage inside the heavily fortified city centre compound known as the Green Zone, which contains the ...

A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: Baghdad, the intellectual, cultural, and scientific hub of the Islamic Golden ...

Baghdad at the time was the largest city in the world, with a population of about 1 million. It was a perfectly round city, with all the important buildings in the centre. Situated between two ...

Narrator: In 762, the city of Baghdad was established by Al-Mansur. The centre was a perfect circle. The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with over one million inhabitants.

10 July 2019. Photo: Omar Sirri This project investigates the political economy of space in Baghdad’s marketplaces. Over the last year, a great deal of public attention has been focused on renewed ...