{"id":5398,"date":"2025-09-11T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:28:51","slug":"hundreds-attend-iraqi-national-day-celebration-at-aus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/hundreds-attend-iraqi-national-day-celebration-at-aus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds attend Iraqi National Day celebration at AUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Fatima Hassan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates \u2014 More than 700 students gathered in the Main Building at the American University of Sharjah on Oct. 8 for the Iraqi National Day celebration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iraqi Cultural Club at AUS organized the event, spending four weeks preparing performances, food and cultural displays, according to club President Aws Al Takriti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the guests were Their Excellencies Abdulla Matar Al Mazrouei, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to Iraq, and Mudhafar Mustafa Al Jubouri, the Iraqi ambassador to the UAE.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving both ambassadors attend reflected the strong relationship between the two nations and the mutual respect shared by their people,\u201d Al Takriti said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%\">\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/aus.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=3928e1ed-172f-42a7-a48d-b37f00b5dfae&#038;autoplay=false&#038;offerviewer=false&#038;showtitle=false&#038;showbrand=false&#038;captions=false&#038;interactivity=none\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; box-sizing: border-box;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\" aria-label=\"Panopto Embedded Video Player\" aria-description=\"2025-09-11-hundreds-attend-iraqi-national-day-celebration-at-aus\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Five booths representing Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, [the region of] Kurdistan and Najaf were set up across the hall. \u201cThe booths were designed to teach visitors about the unique traits of each city,\u201d said club Treasurer Yasir Smaisem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booths offered traditional dishes such as qeema najafiya, a spiced meat stew over rice, and dolma, vegetables stuffed with rice and herbs, with more food and refreshments provided by 10 vendors and five sponsors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event also included a Baghdadi Chobi dance, a traditional group performance recognized for its rhythmic movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want events like this to remind people of Iraq\u2019s unity and generous spirit,\u201d Al Takriti said. \u201cIraq is still alive, always was, and will continue to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fatima Hassan SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates \u2014 More than 700 students gathered in the Main Building at the American University of Sharjah on Oct. 8 for the Iraqi National Day celebration.&nbsp; The Iraqi Cultural Club at AUS organized the event, spending four weeks preparing performances, food and cultural displays, according to club President Aws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,82,32,17,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-5398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-aus-campus","10":"tag-campus","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-sharjah-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}