The Arabic Austria

Have you ever heard of this term? The Arabic Austria???

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Of course not!! Me neither. I created this term and my lines will elaborate it. FLO : is one of our friends and he is an Austrian blogger as well. I like to visit his blog and read his posts.

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I got to know his blog via surfing the blogsphere coincidently because I was looking for Fulbrighters all over the world, as soon as I typed "Fulbright", his blog popped up...I enjoyed reading it and left a comment. Since that day we both visit each others blogs and share our thoughts.

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Since I was a kid, I have always heard about the beauty of Austria especially its capital city : Vienna.

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For Arabic readers I am sure that must of you known the great Arabic singer" Asmahan" with her famous lovely song" Layali el auns fi Vienna," . Which means " intimacy nights in Vienna". She mentions that even the birds chirps for Vienna, and how beautiful it is...She mentions in her song that all sleepless nights, and parties are there, each couple can spend the greatest time in there...And the song keeps going, I am sorry that I neither have the lyrics nor know the whole song. my bad!!

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Austria is a very well known for its famous musicians as well such as: Joseph Haydn، Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart، Franz Schubert، and Arnold SchÃnberg.

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If you are more interested please visit the site here.

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I asked Flo to post some recent pictures of Austria, because I like to see how it is and how people live there, and he did. If you are interested please visit his blog HERE.

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I admire the pictures that flo posted, they show how prospering Austria is!! How modern and clean and SAFE is!! Yea SAFE, we are missing this word long time ago here in Iraq.

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My friend asked me to post some pictures of Iraq, and some perfect places because he is interested to see my country....I had a big exclamation mark over my face! What? Pictures of Iraq?? How and which city and what...uhh???

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I was so sad to tell him that I would love to but recently we have no interesting place here except for the holes that are filling the streets, the destroyed and ramshackle buildings, traces of explosions every where, and Oh yea we have some monuments of detonated cars they still in the roads...We have no amusement parks to go to..No gardens, even the Malwya of Sammra (the incurvate mosque of Sammara) that most of you have seen on the stamps, was fribbled by insurgents, the golden dome of the Imam was bombed, burnt facades of some churches, the Lion of Babylon is beheaded, the alatedTaurus is inside a military base we can not go and see, the ancient castle in Kirkuk is surrounded with barbed wires and NO VISITORS, smokes here and there, sullage in each neighborhood, corpses every where, smell of death and big black piece of cloth remarks the martyr so-and-so...

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Where ever you go, you see policemen, nationalguards not to mention US troops the way you feel that taking a picture might cost you your life, because they will think that you are one of those terrorists trying to snipe them from far distance, or these pictures might be some helpful info to the terror org. in the country!!!

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Or do I have to take a picture of those sheepherders with their herds of sheep, goats, cows, and dogs!!! Or a picture of the flock of swans prancing in the streets? Hens here, roosters there!!Koko kokooooooooooo....

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Or a picture to the traffic jam and the infinite row of cars waiting for the gasoline?? Or a picture of the passengers?? No way, I will get in trouble because war made most Iraqis such anti-celibratories, they lost the smile from their faces and replaced it wirth fawn...

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But nevertheless, there are still some signs and marks of honor that still existing with pride: the Iraqi flag, the date palms...

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We are, Iraqis lets get together, lets help our country, lets make it one of the marvelous nations like it was before, before any other ancient nation, lets build it, clean it, let us make it remarkable that any other singer eulogize its glory and deep - rootedness. Let us make it another Austria, the Arabic Austria.

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p.s Dear Flo, I will do my best to take some good pictures when I have the chance to step outside the house and post them here in my blog...

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Later