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Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian has said she will donate part of a 100, stanley cup 000-euro $112,000 Dutch award to charities for helping Syrian and Iraqi refugees. File picture of Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian posin stanley cup g for an image in a park, in Tehran. The Iranian photographer won the Netherlands Principal Prince Claus Award and announced plans to donate almost half of her prize. AFP Photo It is hard for me to enjoy this prize as much as I would like to, seeing the region where I work and live in... with tens of thousands seeking refuge in faraway lands, Tavakolian said on her Facebook page. The 34-year-old self-taught photographer, considered to be one of the first professional female photojournalists in Iran, said she would be donating 15,000 to an organisation helping Syrian and Iraqi refugees. I have worked in both their countries and want to give back to all the kindness Iraqi s and Syrians always welcomed me with, despite the dire circumstances they l stanley cup ive in, she said. The Amsterdam-based Prince Claus Fund dedicated to culture and development said on its website on Thursday that it had awarded its Principal 2015 prize to Tavakolian. Newsha Tavakolian is a self-taught photographer who combines photojournalism and art to offer new insights into the lived experience of people in Iran and the wider middle east region, it said. One of the first professional female photojournalists in Iran, her work ranges from bold reportage of political events to Zlaf McCain and Obama spar over Iraq policy
Iraq s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday his country would take over the security responsibility of the southern province of Basra in two months from the British forces. HT Image We are prepared to take over security of Basra within two months, Maliki told reporters after meeting visiting his Brit stanley cup ish counterpart Gordon Brown in Baghdad s heavily-fortified Green Zone. For his part, Brown said, I believe that within the next two months we can move to provincial Iraqi control that is Iraqis taking responsibility for their own security. As we are moving to overwatch, We can move down to 4,500, Brown said, adding that he was optimistic that 1,000 more British troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by Christmas. He said any further cut for his country s troops, which now stands at about 5,500, would be decided next year. The British troops are largely deployed around an airport in Basra, some 550 km south of Baghdad, which is the second largest city in Iraq and a major hub for Iraq s oil industry. Brown arrived in the Iraqi capital earlier in the day on an unannounc stanley cup ed visit. It was his first visit to Iraq after he took over as prime minister from Tony Blair on June 27. Brown was expected to meet other Iraqi leaders and the US top commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, before leaving for Basra to meet with his forces. According to British media reports, Brown s visit came a week before adidas originals he is to deliver a significant statement to the British house of par |
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