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Mars Over Baghdad: Miracles in the Desert

Iraq Marga OrtigasNovember 6, 2018 Places

ASTROLOGICAL APPOINTMENT 3a.m., 27th of August 2003.  That was when Mars would’ve been visible from Baghdad. Yes — the planet Mars — seen from the …

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At Majeed’s: Art, Truth, & War in Baghdad

Iraq Marga OrtigasFebruary 4, 2017 People Places Prose

The afternoon was overcast. The way most December afternoons are in Baghdad. A soft mud-yellow breeze blowing against a beige sky. The brown date palms …

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“Bitun”, the Bakwit

the Philippines Marga OrtigasJuly 23, 2010 People Places

They call them “bakwits”.  Thousands of displaced, transient, residents in the Southern Philippines with no permanent place to call home. Caught in the cross-fire, bakwits …

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