Baghdad CGer

#1

Hello There!

It is good to be here. My name is Ali Shakarchi, born in Baghdad 13,937 days ago, still fresh and warm like a new bread from the clay oven. I am primarily an Architect, and specialized in Computer Applications in Architecture. I still can’t make a reasonable resume for myself, because it will look like a Versace dress. I have been a university professor, an Interior Designer, Researcher (architecture, CG, CAD, archaeology, arts, Philosophy), Systems Administrator, Lingo Programmer, Web Developer, and a part-time artist and oh… a former Republican Guard :] Deeply interested in Math, Music, Physics, History, and Politics. I have two offsprings, 10b &1g. People think they are human clones of me.

I will try to commit and publish some of my artwork in the near future, but right now, only my beloved Mom think it is great…

Cheers all

ashakarc

#2

Hi and welcome! Post some work, with a background like that it sounds like it could be pretty interesting with all them influences :slight_smile: And how did you end up in Vancouver?

#3

Thanks Urgaffel, Yeh when I think about ending up in Vancouver, it is a long story. It is even a longer one how I ended up being born and grown in Baghdad…quite a journey, but not done yet!

#4

Hi man!! greetings from a felow Architect!!

#5

Cheers Za Sconder! I have a sense that there are many architects around, but no thread yet to povide the stats.

#6

hi Ali, I was born in Basrah…
do you miss Iraq, I do…

I know Arabic people living here are so versatile…

cheers…

#7

Hi Muhanad, not an Arab myself, but ‘Made in Iraq’. Yeh, do I miss it, it’s been 13 years now, but only miss the old days, the narrow streets of Baghdad, the timeless Abbasid Architecture in Samarra and Baghdad, the crowded Bazaars and the ever seductive aroma, the Masgoof (Grilled Fish), the bedouin with his camel roaming the streets of the city calling to sell Salt, the shephard with his sheep herding them on our favourite soccer field ‘the street’ pooping all over the place, the singing birds of the early morning, the shouting frogs at dawn, the palm trees that I climbed, the burning heat of the summer, the unbelievable friendliness of the people, my moms breakfast in the morning, my thousands of books, my artwork, my history, my life that I could never have again, and all my glory, my bitter alienation, and the sweetest thing, my lemon tree in the backyard. Do I miss it? NO, I’m just a ghost

#8

wow, u lived a long time ago :smiley: , I remember modern Iraq(before the gulph war). well, if u are not arabic, do u mind me asking what nationality…I’m half kurdish half arabic…

#9

Not very long ago, just 25+ years ago, Iraq was the most peaceful place on earth. Natural disaster free nation, Later plagued by the thugs of the Baathist and other arab nationalists who put the whole country into ruins, exterminated hundreds of thousands of people and still are! Now it is a battleground over the bodies and ashes of the oldest recorded civilization on the planet.

Sorry, the only light I see at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of the train.

Peace…

#10

Well, greetings from your friendly American neighbor to the south. I was in Vancouver just a few weeks ago… Unfortunately I was rear-ended on Cambie, just a couple of blocks away from the ICBC claims center (that’s Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, folks!). Such irony!
Despite that, I still think Vancouver is a wonderful city. Haven’t been to Baghdad before, but it must also be very nice, since so many Americans want to go there. :rolleyes:

Welcome!
~T

#11

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