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A panhandler who was born in Iraq was arrested outside a custard store in The Villages.

Nabil Latif Majeed, 59, of Lewis Center, Ohio, had been hanging around outside Ollies Frozen Custard at the Spanish Plaines shopping center at about 8 p.m. Monday when Sumter County sheriffs deputies were summoned to the scene.

When the Baghdad, Iraq native spotted a deputy coming toward him, he began walking out into traffic, according to the arrest report. After Majeed was detained by a deputy, he said he had been looking for food to eat from a trash can. Majeed then used a racial slur, aimed at the deputy.

Ollies Frozen Custard at Spanish Plaines

Majeed was ordered to sit on the sidewalk while the deputy spoke to a representative from Ollies Frozen Custard about the incident. Majeed disobeyed the deputys instruction and got within a foot of the deputy and the Ollies Frozen Custard staffer. When the deputy attempted to handcuff Majeed, he pulled away and refused to cooperate. He also touched the deputys body camera.

Majeed was arrested on a charge of trespassing and booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. He was also banned from Ollies Frozen Custard.

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I remember my mother bringing us to the British Museum in London. My mothers family was from Iraq. She brought us immediately to the Assyrian galleries and into the room that had the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal. Theres nothing cooler than being ten years old and learning that this is the first comic book and your people are responsible for it. She turned to us and she said, What is it doing here? Which made us keenly aware that these museums were not just these polite reliquaries for things that have been exchanged amongst cultures that these were violently extracted. It was a museum, but it was also a crime palace.

That is how Michael Rakowitz introduces Haunting the West, the latest short film from Art21. This documentary profile of Rakowitz delves into how he uses his various works to conjure the ghosts of tragedies across West Asia, both recent and historic. The film goes behind the scenes of projects like Nimrud at the Wellin Museum at Hamilton College, in which he used the packaging for food products from Iraq to recreate Room H from the ancient Northwest Palace of Nimrud, and The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, his installation in Trafalgar Square featuring a similar recreation of a lamassu statue that had been vandalized by ISIS.

Ahead of its official release on Art21, Hyperallergic is proud to present the premiere of the film. You can stream it exclusively on this page for the next five days.

Produced by interviewer Ian Forster, the film uses the issues Rakowitz explores to ask harder questions about the value that the rest of the world places on West Asian art, and how to properly redress the many injustices the West has wrought on the region. As Rakowitz says at the end of the film, If were to have conversations about what decolonization truly looks like, its accompanied by repair and its accompanied by accountability. That work is actually something thats never done.

Haunting the West will be available to stream via Art21 on 2/17.

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Michael Rakowitzs Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq - Hyperallergic

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The French Red Cross (FRC) is operational in Northern Iraq since 2013, especially in Dohuk, Ninewah and Erbil governorates so far; expansion of activities in Babil, Missan, Wassit and Souleymania governorates are currently being initiated. Initially focused on the influx of Syrian refugees, then on the IDP crisis and the challenging displacements and returns of population, FRC provides assistance in a range of sectors including WASH, livelihoods, shelter and relief. Current programming includes WASH (including COVID-19 response), Livelihoods (cash), and Disasters Preparedness and Disasters Reduction whilst opportunities to engage into Health thematic will also be explored in 2021. Mainstreaming of the capacity building of the Iraqi Red Crescent (IRCS) in its daily work is also a main priority.

From May 2020, FRC has begun to change its set up and strategy to align with the Red Cross Red Crescent principles, and play a more active role in all Iraq territory through permanent offices located both in Erbil and Baghdad.

In 2021 the FRC will continue its emergency and recovery assistance for Syrian refugees, IDPs, Iraqi returnees and most vulnerable host communities in the country. This includes in particular for the position of the program coordinator.

Under the supervision of the Head of zone for the Middle East, the Head of Delegation (HoD) will be in charge of FRC teams and actions, especially:

A- Strategy

B- Representation

C- Management of resources

D- Coordination

E- Security

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Your data will be kept for 2 years after the last contact with you and then archived according to the applicable limitation periods. If hired, your data will be kept for the duration of the employment contract and then archived.

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In any case of difficulty, you can contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the French Red Cross headquarters at 98, rue Didot - 75014 Paris or at the following email address: DPO@croix-rouge.fr; you can also file a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL.

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To be better acquainted with the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, we invite you to follow two training sessions online, free and accessible to all. These training sessions constitute a real advantage for your application: WORC (The World of Red Cross and Red Crescent) is an e-learning course on the fundamental principles and operations of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. Its 12 modules address subjects such as the origin and history of the Movement, its fundamental principles, its emblem, the International Federation, the ICRC and national societies. It is dedicated to all profiles: volunteers, employees, members or people wishing to get more information on the biggest humanitarian movement in the world. Stay Safe is dedicated to every staff in a position to carry out international missions on behalf of the Federation or a National Society of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. The course aims at developing a common culture of security management within the Movement in order to enable a better understanding of the main threats and risks for humanitarian actors in the field, and offers solutions to restrain their impact. You will find these lessons on the IFRC Learning Platform open to all by clicking on the following link: https://ifrc.csod.com/client/ifrc/default.aspx

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Head of delegation IRAQ H/F - ReliefWeb

Bodies of the victims were exhumed from mass graves last year and all were identified before the burial on Saturday.

More than 100 members of the Yazidi minority massacred by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group six years ago were laid to rest at a mass funeral in a northern Iraqi village.

Soldiers could be seen carrying coffins to the burial ground in Kocho, in Sinjar province, on Saturday as crowds gathered to mourn the dead.

The bodies were exhumed from mass graves last year in an operation coordinated by the United Nations before being sent to the capital Baghdad for identification.

Iraqs Martyrs Foundation has been overseeing the process and identified the 104 victims using DNA samples taken from their relatives.

The government agency has so far exhumed 16 mass graves of a total of 73 suspected sites.

One relative of a Yazidi who was killed, attending the funeral in Kocho, said some of the victims will not be found.Some of these bones dont exist any more because floods swept them away, said Obeid Khalaf.

William Warda, founder of Hammurabi, an organisation that works to improve minority rights in Iraq, told Al Jazeera Yazidis are still afraid to return home to Sinjar.

The strategy of the government is to close the [refugee] camps and encourage people to return to their homeland, said Warda.

But still the situation, especially in Sinjar, is critical and there is no trust to the security situation. As NGOs, we encourage people to return through programmes.

ISIL ruled over parts of northern Iraq from 2014 to 2017.The armed group did not tolerate other faiths and tried to exterminate the Yazidis, a religious minority with beliefs that distinguish them from Muslim and Christian worshippers in the region.

They destroyed villages and religious sites, lined men up and shot them before kidnapping thousands of women and children, trading them in modern-day slavery.

Many children who were raised under ISIL and indoctrinated in the groups ideology are believed to still be living in camps in Syria.

Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis are living in displacement while control and administration of the Sinjar region remain disputed among Iraqi politicians.

Sinjar, in Iraqs northwestern Nineveh province and near the border with Syria, remains largely empty.

The United Nations has called the attacks on the Yazidi community in Iraq act of genocide against the minority group.

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Remains of 104 Yazidis killed by ISIL laid to rest in Iraq - Al Jazeera English

Author: Cholpon Ramizova

Almost a year after the first case of COVID-19 was detected in Iraq, the country finds itself struggling to maintain a balance between enforcing necessary restrictions and reviving the economy. Nationwide lockdown measures were extended in late October to curb the spread of the virus and while infection rates have decreased, people across the country are struggling to make ends meet. By 14 January 2021, there were 605,416 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Iraq and 12,915 deaths.

To find out how restrictions were affecting access to services and how people felt about the response, Ground Truth Solutions (GTS) partnered with the Iraq Information Centre (IIC) to conduct a third round of interviews with 545 returnees, refugees, and IDPs across Anbar, Dahuk, Erbil, Ninewa, Salah al-Din, and Sulaymaniyah in October and November 2020.

We found that:

People are very concerned about meeting their needs, accessing healthcare, and sending their children to school.

One-third of respondents who consulted a health professional during the pandemic were dissatisfied with the care they received.

Most people (80%) feel there are no silver linings to COVID-19. They are preoccupied with financial instability and deteriorating mental and physical health.

Over two-thirds of respondents (69%) are satisfied with the response to the pandemic, but less than half (44%) believe the authorities are equipped to handle future challenges.

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Nearing a year of restrictions, Iraq's vulnerable are running out of options - and trust - Iraq - ReliefWeb