An Iraqi map pendant, usually worn on women's necklaces, has achieved some popularity as a symbol of Iraqi unity in the face of the widespread ethnic and sectarian violence in the country.
Famous quotes containing the words iraqi, map and/or pendant:
“I will cut the head off my baby and swallow it if it will make Bush lose.”
—Zainab Ismael, Iraqi housewife. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 31 (November 16, 1992)
“If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“Phlébas, le Phénicien, pendant quinze jours noyé,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)