Muslim communities across world celebrate Eid al-Adha

STORY: Muslim communities across world celebrate Eid al-Adha DATELINE: June 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: Baghdad/Bishkek/New Delhi/Khartoum CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Iraqi people at al-Zawraa Park during the Eid al-Adha holiday in Baghdad 2. various of people celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 3. various of people celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday in New Delhi 4. various of people celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday in Sudan STORYLINE: Muslims across the world are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice which marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. In Iraq, some people including 40-year-old Khalid Hameed's family, are celebrating the four-day festival with family in a park. "It is very important to have such amusement areas like al-Zawraa Park because we enjoy the feeling that life has returned after many years of chaos and violence that we wish will never come back," Hameed's wife told Xinhua. In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a festive prayer was

An Arabian horse enthusiast gets closer to dream of resurrecting Iraqi equine industry

STORY: An Arabian horse enthusiast gets closer to dream of resurrecting Iraqi equine industry DATELINE: June 5, 2022 LENGTH: 0:03:48 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of purebred Arabian horses in al-Zawraa Park in Baghdad 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): DR. BAKR FAROUQ, Veterinarian in charge of the Arabian Horse Care Department in al-Zawraa Park 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): AL-KHAFAJI DIAA, Arabian horse breeder and horse racing enthusiast 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): Ali KADHIM MOHAMMAD, Director of the Iraqi Central School for Equestrian Education STORYLINE: Back in 2003 during the U.S-led invasion of Iraq, Bakr Farouq, an Iraqi veterinarian, managed to save 16 rare purebred Arabian horses owned by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Farouq, now the head of the Arabian Horse Care Department in Baghdad's al-Zawraa Park, then risked his life in evacuating the horses, owned by Hussein's Arabian Knight Club, from the presidential palace to the Iraqi Equestrian Club in the al-Ameriyah neighborhood