the boys from baghdad high
the boys from baghdad high is a movie starring hayder khalid, mohammad raed, and anmar refat. four students from different religious backgrounds in baghdad document their final year in high school .
this world: the boys from baghdad high will be broadcast on tuesday 8 january 2007 at 2100 gmt on bbc two .
four students from different religious backgrounds in baghdad document their final year in high school .
bbc2 documentary the boys from baghdad high has won the premier prize at today' s sandford st martin trust religious radio and tv awards .
baghdad high combines the video diaries of four iraqi teen boys during their 2006 - 07 senior year in the violence - fraught capital. the boys are religiously diverse “sons of mesopotamia” who look…
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when i sat down to watch ivan o' mahoney and laura winter' s baghdad high – the boys of baghdad high in the united kingdom, where it was initially shown – i didn' t know what to expect .
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mr. ali (
baghdad high
): yeah, i' m here .
winter gave the baghdad high school students personal video cameras with instructions to film the 2006 - 07 school year .
the boys were instructed not to endanger themselves by filming at sites of violence, but the movie nonetheless has moments of high tension .
ali, hayder, anmar and mohammed all attend baghdad' s tariq bin ziad high school for boys. like students at any high school, they joke around, play soccer, listen to tupac shakur, and try to study .
but instead of dispatching camera crews to tail her subjects, winter let the teenagers film
baghdad high
themselves .
john f. burns and iraqi employees of the new york times contributed reporting from baghdad for this article, christine hauser contributed from mosul, and edward wong from najaf .
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it’s back to school time... and a group of 17 - year - old boys are returning to the classroom for their last year in high school in the world’s most dangerous city—baghdad .
the director of the series, ivan o’mahoney, an award - winning dutch journalist whose hbo documentary “the boys from baghdad high” chronicled the lives of iraqi teenagers during the worst of the violence convulsing that country in 2006, hopes the project may bring balance back to the debate .
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as the city is torn apart by sectarian violence, the film follows their friendships to see whether they can survive. filmed by the four students themselves during the 2006 / 07 academic year, the boys from baghdad high offers a unique insight into ordinary iraqi lives .
sandford st martin trust' s judging panel, chaired by former bbc head of religious broadcasting colin morris, said of the boys from baghdad high :
in this programme we saw the way faith breaks into secular life in the chaos of present day iraq .
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the boys nod in agreement but in baghdad, the violence creeps in, affecting every aspect of life. it is difficult to concentrate on studying .
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baghdad has become one of the world' s most dangerous cities, but on the first day of term at tariq bin ziad high school for boys, ali and his 17 - year - old friends have other concerns .
coming from different ethnic and religious backgrounds the boys showed that despite the war their daily preoccupations were much the same as those of teenage boys the world over – girlfriends, parents, sport, fashion, exams, music .
that is so sad... i feel so sorry for these boys .
if you think high school student dramas are played out, hbo’s planning to prove you wrong. tonight, they’ll showcase a class clown, an aspiring musician, a sports stud, and a lovelorn teen. but these aren’t your average high school teens—these are students of baghdad high .
' baghdad high' depicts teen lives defined by war a new documentary features the stories of four boys in their senior year of high school in baghdad. the students — one kurdish, one christian, one shia and one mixed sunni and shia — shot footage of their families, friends and teachers to craft the documentary, a portrait of adolescence in a time of war .
and it' s a very interesting glimpse into the life of these teenage boys in baghdad. thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. laura winter is the co - director of
baghdad high .
and we were joined also by ali, one of the teens who is featured in the film .
sifting through the footage from the eight original participants, o' mahoney and winter settled on the four most engaging narratives. some of the boys, it turned out, were more inclined to introspection, and these were the boys the directors wanted: the ones who could give voice to the aura of anxiety that hangs over baghdad .
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i hope these demented pedophiles burn in hell. those boys have been indelibly harmed .
several explosions broke out across baghdad on sunday morning, especially in the southwestern section of the city. american attack helicopters circled over the city center, and the roar of fighter jets could be heard from high above .
and so i asked him, well, where did you go to high school? and he said, well, i went to tariq bin ziad high school for boys. and so i sent somebody there to go track down the principle of the school. and a wonderful relationship began from there .
ms. laura winter (co - director ,
baghdad high
): thank you. i' m very happy to be here .
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boys attend a mass during easter celebrations at sacred heart catholic church in baghdad march 23, 2008. (reuters / thaier al - sudani) march 24, 2008
back to school... alex dimitriades and aden young star in the principal, a dramatic story of intrigue set against the backdrop of a boys’ high school in turmoil in south west sydney .
so instead, winter and o' mahoney arrived at the idea of giving cameras to a group of students at tariq bin ziad high school in baghdad. working remotely – they were not in iraq during filming – the directors arranged to have eight boys trained in filmmaking .
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but the greate prize was accorded to the boys from baghdad high, an accompte of four schoolboyes facing the difficulties that beset all such, in addition to studying for exams in the midst of cannonades, grenadoes, & ct, who altho’ divided in religione are yet firmly united in friendship — a signe of hope for our fall’n worlde .
peter scarlet, the creative director of the tribeca film festival, says
baghdad high
has an astonishing ability to penetrate a society mostly closed to the western world. the boys don' t see iraq from the top down. they see it from the inside out, and their lenses follow the seismic – the execution of saddam hussein, for instance, or the implementation of a stifling new curfew – and the quotidian with equal ease .
baghdad high is hbo’s latest in a string of provocative and intimate iraq documentaries. it captures the senior year of four students from different religious and ethnic backgrounds: a kurd, a shia, a sunni, and a christian. as they enter their final year at the tariq bin zaid high school for boys in baghdad, the students are given video recording equipment and a crash course on filming and set out to chronicle their daily lives. the result is a captivating portrayal of a baghdad we rarely see, one that allows the american viewer to put a teenage face on the realities of the war .
a student listens in during parent / faculty night held in the school library at shabazz high .
the film follows four boys - one shiite, one christian, one kurd and one from a mixed sunni - shiite background - into their classrooms and homes .
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the boys spent their senior year in a baghdad high school filming their families, friends and teachers, often using the camera as a confessional for the frustrations of living through a war. today, we talk to one of the directors of the film, and with ali, one of the young men featured in the documentary .
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a cross - sectional study recruiting 1427 (46. 1% boys versus 53. 9% girls) school aged students (6 - 12 years) from 8 primary schools in baghdad during the period november 2001 to may 2002. the bp readings were plotted adopting principles of the 1996 american task force on high blood pressure in children and adolescents .
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school boys cover their ears as they sit in a corner during clashes in baghdad' s sadr city april 15, 2008. (kareem raheem / reuters) april 19, 2008
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baghdad high
has four screenings between april 29 and may 3 at the tribeca film festival. for details, and other festival listings, visit www. tribecafilmfestival. org .
but
baghdad high
also traffics in hope: those unexpected moments when the boys are brought together, regardless of religion or cultural heritage. ali calls this
the times when people can be cool to each other
– when the camera picks up a friendly wrestling match or an uproarious prank .
alex dimitriades has grown up to become the principal of a high school in sbs’s new drama, the principal .
also in the 9pm hour, the second instalment of channel 4' s food show hugh' s chicken run, fronted by hugh fearnley - whittingstall, scooped 3. 3 million and a 13% share; while bbc2 documentary the boys from baghdad high - this world picked up 600, 000 and a 3% share between 9pm and 10. 30pm .
the story of four iraqi boys - who are both friends and class mates - at school in one of the most dangerous cities on earth, baghdad. one boy is kurdish, one christian, one shia and one from a mixed sunni / shia background .
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conclusion: the unsafe situation in iraq has led to high trauma exposure and a high prevalence rate of ptsd among male adolescents in baghdad. the study explored a number of factors that are associated with this increased rate. the data generated from this study may be of use to policy makers, people work in mental health care as well as practitioners in the field .
' baghdad high': ahead of its hbo première on aug. 4, the documentary about four iraqi teens will air on cinema screens at this year' s tribeca film festival .
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all of iraq' s high school students must take national exams to graduate. in the months running up to the exams there are two bombings at a baghdad university, killing scores of students .
right now, ask a teenage boy what he likes, and he might say rap music, cell phones, hanging out with friends, talking to his girlfriend. but what if all this takes place against a backdrop of gunfire, kidnappings and car bombs? in the hbo documentary ,
baghdad high ,
two filmmakers gave video cameras to four teenage boys in baghdad .
this cross sectional study (with an analytic element) was conducted in baghdad city (the capital of iraq) during the period from february through may 2012 .
baghdad high has reached north america through hbo documentary films and will be airing on monday, august 4 at 9 pm. for more information, check out hbo' s website .
headmaster raad jawad is acutely aware of how baghdad' s violence affects morale. right from the opening day assembly he tries to motivate his 600 students .
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winter can already guess her reaction when she can finally meet one of the boys whose lives she watched for a year .
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in the documentary the boys from baghdad high - this world, ivan o' mahoney and laura winter had overcome what one imagines must have been fairly substantial obstacles to put together a collective video diary about life as a teenager in iraq. like mistresses, it was built around the tribulations and hopes of four friends. unlike mistresses, its storyline was governed not by a tick - list of stock narrative dilemmas and secrets but the cruel uncertainties that occupation and insurgency have brought to baghdad .
views the current war in iraq through the eyes of four iraqi teens as they enter their senior year of high school. filmed by the boys themselves, the documentary follows their friendships during the entire academic year and offers unique insight into ordinary adolescent iraqi lives .
johnny burke learned his craft at cinecontact productions under the guidance of renowned observational filmmakers such as sean mcallister and kim longinotto. johnny spent the next ten years editing documentary films for broadcast, including boys from baghdad high (2007), the yes men fix the world (2009). in 2009 he began to broaden his skills into producing, and directed his own short and mid - length films .
baghdad high is a documentary about four baghdad male youths entering their final year of high school. they have each been given cameras and asked to document their experiences. the year is 2006, which was a grueling time for iraq. in october' 06, the month they began school, 2, 722 iraqis were killed – most of them because of their ethnicity and / or religious backgrounds .
a new documentary from filmmaker laura winter, which premieres tuesday at the tribeca film festival, takes a look at life in baghdad through the eyes of four young men .
methods: a sample of 1858 male students, aged 13 to 19 years, was selected from 18 secondary schools for boys in baghdad. the arabic version of the international neuropsychiatric interview ptsd module ‘i’ (m. i. n. i) was adopted to assess the presence of ptsd symptoms .
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baghdad high covers a period of about one year, from fall to summer, the beginning and end of their final year of high school. it is separated by short intertitles giving bits of information, and the rest is narrated either visually or orally by the boys' handheld digital cameras. the cameras, in fact, become a part of the boys' personalities, as they need them as outlets for their ever - rising emotions and worries. the cameras aren' t just objects – they are us, the viewers to whom they are speaking. the teenagers are fully aware of their audience and are eager for us to both see and get to know them .
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qasim muhammad saleh, 45, walking with his two sons, sajad, 5, and jowid, 12, had just come from voting at lebanon high school. the boys were carrying iraqi flags, and mr. saleh' s right index finger carried the ink marks showing he had cast his ballot .
students attend class in a high school for boys in baghdad april 15, 2008. violence, a collapse of school infrastructure and the mass displacement of both pupils and teachers have turned many of iraq' s schools into fetid overcrowded ruins, jeopardising the futures of millions of children. (reuters / ceerwan aziz) april 22, 2008
grant smiled from the back of the room .
that' s my line ,
he said .
he stole that from me .
but over the past month, threatening letters began appearing in shiite neighborhoods across baghdad, residents said .
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malcolm x. shabazz football coach damon harrison talks to player michael reed away from the field during a game against orange high school in orange. shabazz won the game, 30 - 14 .
running back and team captain al - rasheed benton leads stretching drills at the shabazz high school athletic facility in newark .
a mural in the courtyard near the cafeteria shows school pride at shabazz high in newark. support for the athletics program is ingrained in the community .
the university of baghdad was established in 1956 thereby absorbing mustansiriya university that dates from the year 1233, and is depicted here. it was seriously damaged during military occupations and by rioting students in 2007, from which trauma it is still recovering .
baghdad ,
said cyrus harbin, grant' s best friend, the football team' s defensive coordinator and a permanent substitute teacher assigned to the discipline office .
year one was baghdad .
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the boys filmed themselves, and like boys anywhere, they honed in on the inconsequential: learning the lyrics of an internet download, playing football, whether you can conceal the mouse in your bedroom from a mother determined to exterminate it. the mortal realities of baghdad kept interrupting though - the lights suddenly going out or a burst of gunfire rattling in the night - and even the boys' banter was stained by recent history :
if chemical ali really wanted to destroy the north, all he had to do was fire a rocket with mohamed' s socks in them ,
said a boy teasing his friend .
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in those days, i tried to understand the doctrine that everyone suffers from something different and that degrees of suffering are relative to one' s own surroundings. this belief is supposed to allow an individual to both forgive and forget his suffering. baghdad high, however, does not allow one to forgive or forget. that' s not because the film offers an overly violent and traumatic look at the teenagers' lives; in fact, it' s because baghdad high does the very opposite. it shows a background of unrelenting violence while the boys' continue living their lives. that approach makes whatever muddy waters we run through seem like clear spring streams .
iraqi boys sit next to concrete house' s fence which was hit by a projectile during a us military raid in baghdad' s sabaa' qusur area. (afp / wissam al - okaili) march 13, 2008
iraqi boys sit next to concrete house' s fence which was hit by a projectile during a us military raid in baghdad' s sabaa' qusur area. (afp / wissam al - okaili) march 12, 2008
but the 17 - year - old boys are a tight group of friends - regardless of their different religious, ethnic and economic backgrounds .
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somewhere in the reality space between the latest news of horrific suicide bombings in baghdad and the theatrical release last week of the slick, nonfiction high school movie american teen lies the hbo documentary baghdad high, airing monday. in 2006, four iraqi teens were given cameras so they could record their senior year, after which producer - directors ivan o’mahoney and laura winter oversaw the shaping of the hundreds of hours of footage into a finished film. that this quartet of baghdad boys are from different ethno - religious backgrounds — shia, sunni, kurdish and christian — is a tantalizing setup, until you quickly realize that these labels don’t appear to affect their easygoing friendship with each other, their love of western icons like beckham and britney, or make much difference when, as one kid points out, anyone venturing onto the streets of baghdad could become the victim of a stray bullet or a roadside bomb or a kidnapping .
neary: we' re talking about the documentary
baghdad high .
if you' ve any questions about what life is like for a teenager in baghdad, any questions for the filmmaker, give us a call. the number here in washington is 800 - 989 - 8255. and our email address is talk @ npr. org .
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a group of gay iraqis in baghdad, who feared being identified, said they faced daily harassment .
the four friends chat excitedly in the schoolyard at tariq bin ziad high school for boys. they have a lot to talk about: girls, britney spears, who has the best ripped jeans and who’s hair is the spikiest or is a disaster. it seems pretty normal, but it isn’t .
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a policeman places barb wires to barricade a road in baghdad april 9, 2008. the fifth anniversary of the fall of baghdad was marked with a curfew and continuing violence. (reuters / mohammed ameen) april 09, 2008
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the son of a photojournalist, qamar took inspiration from his father and began taking photos of u. s. troops from his window at the tender age of four .
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the fact that the kids are all from different backgrounds, and yet remained friends as their city was torn to bits by sectarian violence, was one of the most satisfying parts of making baghdad high ,
states laura winter .
it filled us with great hope for iraq' s future - and maybe ours, too .
an iraqi girl enjoys a slide in the zawraa park in central baghdad, iraq, friday, jan. 25, 2008. baghdad remains under curfew every friday. (ap photo / khalid mohammed) january 26, 2008
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so with no support from the west, murad and emin need all the help they can get .
there is a need to bring experts from abroad to train secondary teachers, because the local trainers have been isolated from international developments and are in need for modernizing .
they drink, they eat, they gossip, leave a nice tip for the waiter then they leave for the next baghdad hotspot .
fear has rippled across socially liberal niches of baghdad, from the basement - level clothing shops where teenage boys buy skull pendants and skater gear, to upscale hair salons and theaters. advocates say some emo youths and gay men have left for northern iraq, while others have shorn off hairdos or muted outfits that were once badges of identity .
baghdad high provides a clear window from our living rooms into the homes and classrooms of those struggling to survive a war - torn baghdad. during its most personal moments, the film’s “home video” style allows the boys to share their dreams and tragedies directly with the audience without interference. rarely does an american audience have such unfettered access into the true, everyday lives of iraqis. by the end, this touching documentary makes a powerful social comment on the value of war and the burden it places on common people, leaving the audience to reconsider the utility of war as an option in settling conflict. ultimately these four iraqi teens have taken a crucial step toward closing the gap between “us” and “them. ”
children attend the celebration of arab orphan day, which falls during the first week of april, in an orphanage in baghdad april 6, 2008. the celebration was sponsored by the red crescent organization in baghdad. (reuters / mahmoud raouf mahmoud) april 06, 2008
a iraqi union demonstrator displays posters during a march in baghdad april 12, 2008 demanding the withdrawal of u. s. soldiers from iraq. (reuters / mahmoud raouf mahmoud) april 12, 2008
he had started playing football at john f. kennedy high and realized it was an acceptable excuse in his neighborhood for staying off the streets .
by the time ali departs for the north, nearly a quarter of his school' s 600 students and their families have fled baghdad .
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this juxtaposition – between the foreign and the familiar – forms the heart of the documentary that has its american première at the tribeca film festival in new york this week. unlike the flood of iraq - related films spilling into the marketplace ,
baghdad high
does not take the long view. it is filmed close - up, in jittery autobiographical asides and teary confessionals, by four boys – a christian, a kurd, a shiite, and a sunni – trapped in a war zone .
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his experiences during the filming, he said, which took him to baghdad, caused “a 180 back flip” in his attitudes .
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the target population was adolescent boys that were collected from secondary schools. central organization for statistics (2010 - 2011) recorded a total of 5, 472 secondary schools in iraq with 1, 953, 766 enrolled students. in the same academic year, baghdad governorate had 1, 074 secondary schools, 436 for female students, 532 for males and 106 mixed gender schools. the total number of secondary school students in baghdad was 543, 450, including 243, 670 girls and 299, 780 boys [ 17 ]. the city of baghdad is divided by tigris river into two major parts; russafa to the east and karkh to the west. each part has three educational directorates. a simple random sampling technique was adopted for this study through choosing three secondary schools (for boys) from each directorate. the researchers considered including different residential sectors to insure the inclusion of different socio economic strata (elite, public, and suburban) to make the sample more representative and to avoid confounding the results by the socio economic status. consequently, nine schools from each side of baghdad city (forming a total of 18 secondary schools) were included. secondary schools in iraq usually include six grades and the students’ spectrum of age is between 13 - 18 years. three classes (using a simple random sampling technique) were chosen from each school (first, third and fifth grades) to include a wide spectrum that represent the targeted age group. all the students in the chosen classes were included in the study yielding a total sample of 1858 boys out of 9100 students enrolled in these schools .
newark — the buses were quiet and dark as they rolled home toward newark' s south ward. inside, rows of bruised, muddy football players from malcolm x shabazz high school said nothing. the only sounds were sniffles and muffled crying .
if you have questions about what life is like for a teen in baghdad, give us a call. our number here in washington is 800 - 989 - 8255, and our email address is talk @ npr. org. and you can comment on our blog at urltoken laura winter is co - director of
baghdad high
and she joins us now from our bureau in new york city. good to have you with us, laura .
the boys meet in school, and then retire to their homes, where they can often hear the crackle of gunfire or smell the acrid smoke that follows a bombing. the cameras are rarely turned off .
an iraqi vendor fries falafel at a market in central baghdad. (afp / sabah arar) april 02, 2008
ivan o’mahoney and laura winter ‘s “ baghdad high ” follows the lives of ordinary iraqis during the war. screening in the world documentary competition at the 2008 tribeca film festival, o’mahoney and winter gave four iraqi high school seniors a digital camera to record a year in the lives. the result is a film that shows how remarkably similar these teenagers’ lives are compared to those in the western world. indiewire talked to both filmmakers about the film and their expectations for its north american premiere at tribeca .
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baghdad refugee children in a school that their families occupied after leaving their homes due to the ongoing raids by us and iraqi forces into baghdad' s shiite enclave of sadr city. (afp / file / ahmad al - rubaye) april 10, 2008
in order to encourage young iraqis to get down to the serious business of creating a better future, we adopted a novel approach: help them play. the program at zahra’s school pairs life skills with movement and sport, and is now in 30 baghdad schools, 15 for boys and 15 for girls .
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grant hurt for his players, for the school and for the community. the playoff loss at carteret high stung, but this was a lost opportunity in a much bigger fight — the fight for shabazz, a long - shot crusade he and others have taken on to save one of the worst high schools in the country — and to do it starting with sports .
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iraqi girls play in the snow in sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of baghdad, iraq on friday, jan. 11, 2008. further south, baghdad residents saw snow for the first time in memory on friday. (ap photo / yahya ahmed) january 12, 2008
a young iraqi boy is treated for wounds in hospital in the shiite enclave of sadr city, baghdad, monday, april 14, 2008. the child was injured in ongoing clashes in baghdad' s sadr city. (ap photo / karim kadim) april 14, 2008
currently filming in sydney, the murder mystery will co - star rectify actor aden young, and reunites dimitriades with his heartbreak high cast mate, salvatore coco .
our study revealed a high prevalence of ptsd among eldest sons in the families; this may indicate higher psychological demands and responsibilities on the eldest boys that may lead to a high probability of trauma exposure. children and adolescents in iraq usually do not work during school time; one of the major negative consequences of long - term wars and conflicts is that they lead to severe deprivation and increased poverty rates among iraqi families. young boys have been forced to work exposing them to high risk environment and trauma [ 16, 29 ]. this is consistent with the current study where there was a higher rate of ptsd among the working group. there is a linear association between ptsd and working during school courses. however surprisingly; the odds ratio calculation in the current study shows that working during school time is associated with less ptsd. although this seems to be contradictive but it has an intrinsic logic: working boys are more exposed to risks but those who are severely affected by ptsd will possibly not be able to continue working .
name: nichole powers class of: 2004 now living in: holiday fl date: monday, august 30, 2004 comments: hey everyone, well i didn’t know how hard leaving high school would be for me. but so far in my life the best feeling in the world was walking across that stage. i really miss gulf high but i am in college now and well nothing is the same. if any underclassmen read this i am telling you now make the best of high school .
and ali, i wanted to ask you this, and laura, you can also join in and help him out with this if you like. one thing that was very intenerating is that the boys - you boys seemed to use the camera as a diary, as a way to talk about your feelings about what was going on. is that true ?
follow the journey of three talented young indigenous football players from the red dust ovals of central australia to the hallowed turf of the new adelaide oval .
four teenage boys keep a video diary of their final year at tariq bin ziad high school in baghdad. as violence escalates, they prepare to take the national exams they must pass in june to secure their diploma. amid explosions, gunfire, and power outages, they study, wrestle, play games, listen to music, dance, and talk boy talk. will they pass their exams? will they live? bbc this world, and hbo .
over time, when the turkish republic was established, wealthy istanbulites morphed the area with their summerhouses. sadly today it seems the surrounding baghdad area is mutating further into a cluster of high - rise apartment blocks. the ottoman mansions and elite low - level summerhouses are almost all gone and it seems soon they will also be forgotten .
alex dimitriades revisits his heartbreak high years and teams up with aden young for a new drama and geoffrey rush explores his past in sbs’s 2015 lineup .
he is just eight year' s old but already qamar hashim is far from ordinary .
neary: we are talking with laura winters. she' s a co - director of
baghdad high ,
which is an hbo documentary, and you are listening to talk of the nation from npr news. i couldn' t help wondering, laura, as i was watching that, how much editing did you have to do? how much film did you get ?
abdullah monther (r), 13 years old, stands next to the owner at a shop where they fix and sell vehicle exhaust pipes in arbil, 220 miles north of baghdad, march 1, 2008. abdullah, an arabic shi' ite resident, dropped out from school to work to support his family after they were displaced from their home in baghdad due to sectarian violence in 2006. (reuters / ceerwan aziz) march 4, 2008
neary: now, what was this experience like for you? when you boys all got the cameras, you all seemed a little giddy with the power that the camera was giving to you to take pictures .
says ali, one of the boys featured in the film :
the media can' t show everything that' s happening [ in iraq ] because there are so many deaths, too many explosions .
moments later, however, away from her hosts, ms. moore stops to reflect into the camera .
on sunday, the iraqi police told the associated press that a suicide bomb attack in western baghdad killed one policeman and wounded several people at a security checkpoint .
a good step by the government indeed. there are lots of other countries from where the imports can h ...
desus and mero is an american television late - night talk show series hosted by desus nice and the kid mero, aka the bodega boys, who give their takes on politics, sports and entertainment .
quite sad indeed but this practice is quite common in many countries not in shape of dancing boys but similar to it. the biggest problem for this horrible crime is the money, secondly the education and thirdly culture .
during that 2010 - 11 nightmare, the school' s fire alarm was pulled 119 times and students hurled textbooks from the windows for fun. the school was ranked at or near the bottom in several academic ratings, and only 19 percent of the students were proficient in math, according to high school proficiency assessment testing .
for the conference, two boys involved in the fight — one a shabazz student and the other a student at a newark charter school — sat with their mothers and younger siblings. the mothers cried as they urged their kids to end the disagreement .
an iraqi man sells oranges as a us soldier patrols an area in baghdad. (afp / jewel samad) january 16, 2008
but what can be fake about someone who is fitted with massimo dutti and michael kors? deniz says the lifestyle and fashion is genuine if you are from this street. if you move to baghdad from the outer suburbs she believes the art of imitation is a sham. she tells me, “fashion is having your own style and this style is being followed by the others. ”
baghdad, iraq, sunday, jan. 30 - iraqis began casting ballots sunday morning in the country' s first free elections in more than 50 years, and scattered insurgent attacks began soon after, including a car bombing that killed at least one police officer in western baghdad .
in the tribeca catalog, tff artistic director peter scarlet writes that “with moving intimacy, ‘baghdad high’ affords an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of ordinary iraqis attempting to lead ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances… the kids of [ the film ] open us up to a very different sense of life in iraq than what we’ve been seeing on the nightly news for five years. ”
the ministry said its social police would be sent to investigate “the emo” and added that its forces had also received the authority to go into all of baghdad’s schools to find them .
an iraqi woman shouts slogans demanding the withdrawal of u. s. troops from iraq during a demonstration organized by the independent federation of iraqi trade unions downtown baghdad, saturday, april 12, 2008. (ap photo / hadi mizban) april 12, 2008
baghdad high combines the video diaries of four iraqi teen boys during their 2006 - 07 senior year in the violence - fraught capital. the boys are religiously diverse “sons of mesopotamia” who look to pass their national exams while u. s. helicopters patrol overhead, power outages persist, checkpoints must be negotiated every morning, and nighttime walks to a neighbor’s house are a mortal risk. putting the trials of mtv reality - show prima donnas in perspective, the middle - class quartet will be relatable to this bbc / hbo production’s audience in their easy embrace of western kid stuff (dopey cellphone videos, britney and 2pac as bedroom accompaniment for koran study, “fuck! ” as an interjection in arabic sentences) and dealings with generational tensions (the frustration and anxiety of anguished parents grappling with financial and political hardship and the option of abandoning baghdad, as a quarter of the school’s students do by midyear) .
from left, jill, vera and thomas sung in “abacus: small enough to jail. ”
beautiful accident in a comedy from china, a lawyer (gwei lun - mei) awakes from a car accident to find herself living a life not taken: she’s a housewife and mother .
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killing ground in a thriller from australia, a camping couple encounter an empty tent and a child wandering without his parents. from the trailer, it looks as if they stumbled onto a crime in progress .
a group of 30 volunteers has collected more than 1, 200 dead bodies from beneath of the rubble of the destroyed city .
there were two main limitations in the current study: first, conducting researches by itself is a risk to the lives of researchers in baghdad, the un - favorite security condition narrows the choices of sample selection making it difficult to choose a house to house method in data collection so we shifted to the secondary schools to collect the targeted age group from there, second; it is extremely sensitive in iraq (at the present era) to survey adolescent girls for such an issue, that’s why the study was limited to boys only .
when cnn anchor bernard shaw flew to iraq to interview saddam hussein, he didn’t intend to make history as a war correspondent. shaw—along with reporters peter arnett and john holliman and producer robert wiener—was in a hotel awaiting a call from hussein’s reps when the deadline for u. n. sanctions passed. war was imminent and the u. s. was going to bomb baghdad. the first tv cable news journalists to cover a war in real time, they broadcast from their hotel room. cnn’s ratings soared and audiences rooted for the “boys of baghdad, ” even as shaw, off - air, feared for his life. as he told viewers at one point, “this feels like we’re in the center of hell. ”
if you watch the documentary you' ll see that these boys are also killed when they get to be too old to be interesting (around age 16). also, the families often sell them willingly .
in a country were woman are hidden behind the berqua, young boys take their place, dancing for men as female substitutes... a life of sexual slavery and even murdered .
at the arabiya school in the karada district of central baghdad, plastic ballot boxes already had scores of large, folded ballots stacked inside just an hour after voting began .
neary: yeah. now, i know that you are living in the united states now. have you stayed in touch with your friends in baghdad?
the boys from baghdad high , also known as baghdad high , is a british-american-french television documentary film . it was first shown in the united kingdom at the 2007 sheffield doc/fest , before airing on bbc two on 8 january 2008 . it also aired in many other countries including france , australia , the united states , canada , germany and the netherlands . it documents the lives of four iraqi schoolboys of different religious or ethnic backgrounds over the course of one year in the form of a video diary . the documentary was filmed by the boys themselves , who were given video cameras for the project . directed and produced by ivan o'mahoney and laura winter of renegade pictures and storylabtv , for the united kingdom 's bbc , hbo in the united states , and the franco-german network arte , the boys from baghdad high was produced by alan hayling and karen o'connor for the bbc , hans robert eisenhauer for arte , and sheila nevins for hbo . the boys from baghdad high received high viewership when it initially aired in the uk , and was reviewed favourably in the media . it was named the best news and current affairs film at the european independent film festival , won the premier prize at the sandford st. martin trust awards , and was nominated for awards at two film festivals . the documentary also received the radio times readers award , and a nomination for the amnesty international 2008 television documentary and docudrama uk media award . 
the boys from baghdad high, also known as baghdad high, is a british-american-french television documentary film. it was first shown in the united kingdom at the 2007 sheffield doc/fest, before airing on bbc two on 8 january 2008. it also aired in many other countries including france, australia, the united states, canada, germany and the netherlands. it documents the lives of four iraqi schoolboys of different religious or ethnic backgrounds over the course of one year in the form of a video diary. the documentary was filmed by the boys themselves, who were given video cameras for the project. directed and produced by ivan o'mahoney and laura winter of renegade pictures and storylabtv, for the united kingdom's bbc, hbo in the united states, and the franco-german network arte, the boys from baghdad high was produced by alan hayling and karen o'connor for the bbc, hans robert eisenhauer for arte, and sheila nevins for hbo. the boys from baghdad high received high viewership when it initially aired in the uk, and was reviewed favourably in the media. it was named the best news and current affairs film at the european independent film festival, won the premier prize at the sandford st. martin trust awards, and was nominated for awards at two film festivals. the documentary also received the radio times readers award, and a nomination for the amnesty international 2008 television documentary and docudrama uk media award.
the boys from baghdad high, also known as baghdad high, is a british-american-french television documentary film. it was first shown in the united kingdom at the 2007 sheffield doc/fest, before airing on bbc two on 8 january 2008. it also aired in many other countries including france, australia, the united states, canada, germany and the netherlands. it documents the lives of four iraqi schoolboys of different religious or ethnic backgrounds over the course of one year in the form of a video diary. the documentary was filmed by the boys themselves, who were given video cameras for the project. directed and produced by ivan o'mahoney and laura winter of renegade pictures and storylabtv, for the united kingdom's bbc, hbo in the united states, and the franco-german network arte, the boys from baghdad high was produced by alan hayling and karen o'connor for the bbc, hans robert eisenhauer for arte, and sheila nevins for hbo. the boys from baghdad high received high viewership when it initially aired in the uk, and was reviewed favourably in the media. it was named the best news and current affairs film at the european independent film festival, won the premier prize at the sandford st. martin trust awards, and was nominated for awards at two film festivals. the documentary also received the radio times readers award, and a nomination for the amnesty international 2008 television documentary and docudrama uk media award.