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Mar 5, 2014

Visitors look at paintings during an art exhibition in Baghdad December 2, 2013. As part of its role as Capital of Arab culture of 2013, Baghdad hosted the three-day art exhibition featuring more than 500 sculptures and paintings of Iraqi and Arab artists. Artists from Syria, Lebanon and Morocco participated in the event which is considered the first of its kind since 1980s. Baghdad was named the 2013 Arab Capital of Culture by the Arab League, but the worst wave of bombings in Iraq in five years is taking — Visitors look at paintings during an art exhibition in Baghdad that was put on as part of its role as Capital of Arab Culture of 2013, Dec. 2, 2013. — REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

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An Iraqi man armed with an AK-47 stands guard in front of a cinema in
Baghdad, May 23, 2003. Shi'ite conservative muslims have warned cinemas
not to play erotic movies. A month after Saddam's fall, theaters have
already started to show European, Turkish or American movies containing
nudity, but are feeling the pressure from clerics to stop airing them.
REUTERS/Jamal Saidi

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