Word: shammari
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...shells are falling once again on the International Zone, probably the handiwork of radical Shi'ite militias. "After 2003, Iraqi politics got so complicated, with so many parties, and so many foreign countries got involved that it's like the whole political scene is built on straw," says Hazem Shammari, a professor of political science at Baghdad University. "If one thing goes wrong, we'll go back to [civil war]." (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...political power and the legacy of repression, many individual Iraqis forged business, social and personal relationships between the sects. In Baghdad and other cities, most neighborhoods built in the modern era were mixed. Residents of Adhamiya and Khadamiya were able to reach across the Tigris and socialize. Mohammed al-Shammari, an Arabic-literature professor, fondly remembers evenings with friends in Khadamiya, followed by dinner and late-night revelry in Adhamiya, where shops and restaurants stayed open later. "Nobody asked us if we were Shi'ite or Sunni," says al-Shammari. "And we never thought to ask each other. I have...
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