From the wheel to the sailboat, the Mesopotamians were responsible for countless inventions still used today. This article unpacks ten of the most surprising inventions from this ancient civilization. Close up Relief of Ashurnasirpal II Hunting Lions, 865-60 BC, via The British Museum, London Ancient Mesopotamia was a powerhouse of agriculture and
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Introduction – A heady mix of inflation, tech and net zero World GDP to hit $100 trillion in 2022 This introduction sets out some of the key underlying themes in the report and some of the major changes since last year. A year ago, we hoped that the economic effects of the pandemic would wear off relatively quickly. And in one sense they have. We now expect world GDP i
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We wish our Chrstian Iraqi fellow citizens and all our Christian firends in the world Merry Christmas 2021 and peaceful life with a prosperous economy in 2022
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1 December 2021; Baghdad - As Iraq becomes a Party to the Paris Agreement, the United Nations in Iraq is calling for solidarity with and support to people in Iraq in their efforts to confront climate change. Traditionally known as "the land between two rivers" or Mesopotamia, lush and fertile, Iraq is increasingly experiencing extreme climate events, compounding environmenta
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Iraqis start the second centenary of their history as if they were guests of humanity, as Mahmoud Darwish used to say. One hundred years have passed since the founding of the modern Iraqi state (1921-2021), a zero-harvest centenary for a country that is on the brink of collapse. Iraq faces a host of existential threats, the least dangerous of which is the spectre of corru
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