Embroidered Iraq - Hoodie

This piece celebrates the cultural heritage of Iraq and its two rivers. It features a map of Iraq with flowers and vines. The two vines represent the flow of the two major rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Mesopotamia, اَلْعِرَاق, Land of two rivers - some of the names attributed to the cradle of civilization that is Iraq. Every empire in the near east including the Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Seljuk, Mongol, Timurid, Safavid, Afsharid and Ottoman has wanted a piece of the culturally rich country. From being the home of the famed city of Babylon to Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the Muslim world - Iraq's heritage is eternal.