My Grandfather
This is a picture of a portrait of my grandfather in traditional arabic clothes, painted by the famous mosul's painter " Najeeb younis".
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- A 60-years-old medical Doctor, Male, married and have three daughters.
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dear moslawi:
I WAS VERY GLAD TO SEE MY GRAND GRAND FATHER'S PORTRAIT , HE REMINDS ME OF MY GRAND FATHER . BY THE WAY ARE YOU SURE IT WAS NAJEEB YOUNIS' WORK .IT LOOKS LIKE ONE OF PIKASSO'S
Hehe, cousin, it is Najeeb Yonus. Let me send you one of my grandfather, and another one for all of them (Mine, yours, and dad's).
What a beautiful portrait. And such a handsome man
Dr. Truth, do you look like your grandfather?
I couldn't post on HNK's blog, so thought I'd ask you:
your daughters take many school exams. Are these national exams that every student in Iraq (of a certain grade and class subject) are taking on the same day?
Take care,
Tilli (Mojave Desert)
That's really a beautiful portrait.
Thank you dor sharing it with us.
Greetings to you and your family from a faithful reader in the city of Austin in the State of Texas. What a wonderful portrait of your grandfather, may he rest peacefully in Heaven. I am certain he would be proud of you and all of his great-grandchildren.
Thank you for enlightening our lives with your blog entries. You and your entire blogging family are helping to build a bridge of understanding and respect between two great peoples. May God allow you to continue writing so that in the near future our people exchange only words and never bullets. Peace be upon you.
A beautiful portrait indeed, and of a handsome man.
I have no training in art, but the portrait seems to me original in its use of yellow and brown, creating a very harmonious result.
I think that the portrait is even more impressive in comparison to portraiture in the West during the 20th Century. The rise of various types of non-realistic painting during the century produced portraits most of which I personally dislike. Realistic painting and portraiture survived, but were less at the center of the art world.
An example of a serious, realistic portraitist is the British painter, Lucian Freud (son of Sigmund Freud). He has received more patronage than anyone else from the British nobility, starting about 1945. Many of his paintings are in major museums.
Michael in Framingham
Yet, many of Lucian Freud's paintings are grotesque. Here is alink to a BBC story about his portrait of Queen Elizabeth:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1723071.stm
Anyone can use Web search engines to find other portraits of his. I think some are good and some are worse than the Queen's.
In comparison to works like Freud, your grandfather's portrait is a revelation to me.
By the way, today is Good Friday among most Christians. It recalls the execution of Jesus. Easter is celebrated on this Sunday because of the account, in the New Testament of the Bible, of Jesus resurrection on that day. Although I am no longer a believing Christian, still, I wish you and your family a Happy Easter.
Michael in Framingham
Tilli (Mojave Desert)
In replay to your first question: I don't look like him but there are some thing in general between us, our eyes are similar, almost the same beard, I have shorter mustache, I am taller and slimmer than him.
Both my daughters are in a special school for bright students. they call it al- mutamayzat school, it means a magnet school. they subject the student to soo many exam. making them busy day and night, throughout the year.
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Jeff
My grandfather was a very famous man in Mosul, He had a very skillful jop which depends on personal ability and a lot of patience, and precise handcraft work. Plus it needs honesty and trustfulness. In any place in Mosul if you just mention that you are his son or a relative, you can buy or take any thing without paying money or sign a paper. (His name was more acceptable than a credit card).
He had 4 sons and 2 daughters.
He died in 1952, when i was 4 years old, I just remember a hazy image of him.
He was very intellegent and wise man, rich enough to live in high standard life with his large family (at that time all the sons and their families are live in the same house). I can't tell you more otherwise every Moslawi will guess who he was.
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Oscar
Thank you very much for your nice comment. I feel just the same feeling regarding our two nations.
When I had started my blog, I had an idea that the American peoples are much educated and civilized than the others, but unfortunately this idea vanished when I received comments from some Americans Just because I have different viewpoint for some events that occured in my country. They proved to be so ignorant that made me changed my mind. But your comment and other emails I had recieved regained my confidence in your peoples.
Peace be upon all of us.
Hi Truth Teller,
That is a very nice portrait - is the original hanging on a wall of your house somewhere?
Regarding Oscar's comment, nobody has a monopoly on ignorant bigots, and unfortunately we have our fair share here. Not all of us are like that, though.
Best regards,
Shawn.
shawn
Yes this portrait is hanging on the wall of my uncle house.
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strykeraunt
The artist who painted this portrait(Najeeb Younis), has been died long time ago.
The name is common here in Mosul, perhaps the other Najeeb Younis is also Moslawi.
hitech luddite
Thank you hitech for this imortant question.
The cause is the American perception is NOT always correct !!.
There are many Arab with light skin and fair hair. This specially in the regions of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Offcource not all the Iraqis are fair hair and light skin, but in the region of the north of Iraq, the majority are look like that.
The deep skin Arab, are propably from the Gulf area, and so the south of Iraq, and the africa. About half of the Arabic countries located in Africa.
In short I am an Arabic and descented from Arabic roots, both from the father an mother sides.
BTW; The Persian people are also deep colored and cann't be diffrentiated from the southern Iraqis by just looking at their photos
I loved reading your blog.
Thankyou.
Comments appear to be disabled for your post above about Fallujah so I'll say it here:
Besides the two glaring examples pointed out above I read through the rest of the article in the link provided. It only underscored the bias and lies of this author.
“Wholesale rape of civilians” (Yeah, right)
“They were given one week to leave home,” (provably false. The assault on Fallujah was telegraphed for at least several weeks beforehand. Everyone knew it was coming. Residents were given at least a month’s advance notice. At the time I remember thinking it was almost too much advance notice, giving the terrorists way too much time to prepare elaborate booby-traps.)
““The whole town is radiated,” said Manning. “We are poisoning the whole country.” (Gimme a break.)
“’Everybody’s in the resistance. You don’t ask them directly; that wouldn’t be wise. But everybody’s in the resistance,” (Maybe everyone you were explicitly directed to talk to, Mark. That should tell you something. )
“A British study [of civilian deaths]— now several months old — placed the figure above 100,000.” (A blatant lie. Even if you believe the suspect Lancet study, it only estimated deaths at between 8,000 & 100,000, with 100,000 at the ridiculously unlikely high end of that spread. How this became the new left-wing mantra of “above 100,000”, I don’t know. Willful ignorance or blatant lies, I guess.)
“Iraqis were told that if they wanted food rations, they had to vote. Everybody over there is on food rations,” he said. “And the food ration guys were at the polling places to make sure people voted.” (So now he’s kicking millions of brave Iraqis in the teeth by claiming they only voted to get food. What an insult. And a lie.)
And then this gem:
“According to Manning, the “bum” winked at him and said, “Look in my eyes. I have the eyes of a former sniper. You thought you had the goods on George Bush, didn’t you? You’ve been sandbagged, boy.”
LOL. “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
This guy is either on hallucinogenic drugs, has an exaggerated sense of his own importance or is certifiably insane. (or… a liar.)
You’re making a big mistake, “Truthteller”, in turning your blog into a forum for linking to ridiculous articles like that one. You’re ruining any credibility you might have, except among those on the left-wing fringes. If that’s what you want your blog to become, you’re succeeding. But it would be a shame because it will cause you to lose many readers such as myself who are otherwise open to hearing your views and hearing about your life. That article may sound credible to you and it may sound credible to people who are already vehemently anti-war or anti-American but I assure you it sounds ridiculous to anyone else who is not already in that camp. It's full of things that are provably false. By not using your own voice and instead linking to articles emailed to you, you are allowing your blog to be used by others and it will cause you to lose open-minded readers. The only readers you'll have left will be those on the fringes who already agree with you. Is that what you want?
Dear truth teller..
i ould like to tell you that i'm saif Najeeb Younis(the famous artist Najeeb Younis is actually my father)this is not one of my father's paints......my father saw the paint & said its not one of his.
can you please show us my father's signature????
Dear truth teller..
i ould like to tell you that i'm saif Najeeb Younis(the famous artist Najeeb Younis is actually my father)this is not one of my father's paints......my father saw the paint & said its not one of his.
can you please show us my father's signature????
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QUAGMIRE & IMPEACHMENT
What Americans think, feel, vote, and say has zero bite.
When a million votes would be stolen, accountability - so slight.
The radical RepubliCons chose how to so waste our might ---
Just where, when, and why we HAD to START a fight.
They'd planned for Iraq, with 30 years more oil still in sight.
Must control the price and flow into OUR gas tanks, right?
Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell - profits picture sure looks bright!
Picked unrelated threats, then faned the flames to such great height.
You know - 9/11, or a mushroom cloud type of fright.
Pulled the Towers, then with balled-up flags to plug their ears:
A Patriot Act - panic attack => they waived our rights to calm our fears.
How well, a shredded Constitution wiped away wasted tears.
Load the planes with C-notes, no bids please, as the dust clears.
Corporate warriors. No Draft! A private war it is - Three Cheers!
Fat cats, well fed by exce$$ greed, now six straight years.
Say what, a change of plan to end war profits? Sharpen up the spears!
Another traitor to be skewered, trot out the NeoCon-tradicting seers.
From Limpbowel, O'Rlie-to-me, and their ilk, we start to hear the jeers.
Some freshly think-tank-framed simplistic verbal smears.
Sad sight, so many flags draped over coffins never seen.
The sinister lies that filled them neatly hidden behind a patriotic sheen.
Human losses well disguised, and media filtered from our collective eyes,
By corporate puppet leaders, whose agendas we must now despise.
Pity the Iraqi families, alone with blood, pain, death, despair,
As pompous jingo windbags fill the U.S. propaganda-polluted air,
Can spews of false praise glory, hide truly neglected veterans' care?
Fox Snooze hype NOT, as your heroes, our loved ones lost;
Their blood for oil - spent badly – much too high this cost.
Keith Rupert Murderdoch, the boss who must be tossed!
Now past his "mission accomplished" day in years by more than four,
One so delusional Decider is still not looking for an exit door.
An occupation, one aggressor means it never was a war!
The stench, the smell - corruption, failures everywhere,
Yet all we hear is that which plays upon our deepest fear.
A drone of platitudes preached to stretch our stay another year.
"The job is almost done! "
"Must keep them Terrorists on the run!"
"We can't abandon Iraq until we've won."
"Another 30,000 surge, so send us your brave sons."
" Trillion dollar debts, their kids can pay these no small sums!"
"Waterboarding works. Don't call it torture. You're just chums!"
NO NO NO! Time true Patriots stand and shout "Impeach these Bums!"
Lean hard on leaders, like Lieberman, to not just lose their parties,
But to find our Republic again, while we still have one!
Target the REAL Axis of Evil => IMPEACH Cheney-Bush!
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