THIS IS MOSUL NOW! (الموصل): From Ruins to Recovery - Cultural Travel Guide to Iraq's 2nd City

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2024

КОМЕНТАРІ • 96

  • @vintagestuffguy1998
    @vintagestuffguy1998 8 місяців тому +23

    Small channel deserving far greater viewership. Very informative and engaging video - great stuff!

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  8 місяців тому +1

      I agree! Thanks for the great feedback.

  • @user-lt4iq5hd5n
    @user-lt4iq5hd5n Рік тому +38

    Such a rich culture. One can only hope Iraq recovers from the ashes and becomes once more the country it deserves to be. I would love to visit some time!

    • @zaidkashmola7172
      @zaidkashmola7172 3 місяці тому

      As an Iraqi from mosul I thank you

    • @Lucy-iy9ni
      @Lucy-iy9ni 3 місяці тому

      ​​@@zaidkashmola7172 the iraqis today are different from the ancient ones before iraq existed, if they saw you claiming them they would roll in their grave.

    • @zaidkashmola7172
      @zaidkashmola7172 3 місяці тому

      @@Lucy-iy9ni that's true but it's not only the community's fault we have a very very corrupt government

  • @sowaveysuyat
    @sowaveysuyat 5 місяців тому +5

    Been looking for updates about Mosul and Iraq after watching a bunch of documentaries, seeing the crazy battles there I'm glad they are rebuilding and looking forward to peace. Great video and narration, I only wish this video was longer!! God bless the people of Iraq and their soldiers who defended their lands.

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  5 місяців тому

      Thanks. Really appreciate the feedback.

  • @spectator0916
    @spectator0916 2 місяці тому +2

    Praying for healing in Iraq.

  • @treyq1982
    @treyq1982 7 місяців тому +10

    amazing how a city that has seen so much war looks much cleaner than the best parts of india

  • @adrianburn7178
    @adrianburn7178 9 місяців тому +7

    Thanks for that most interesting look at a place most of us will never visit.

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  9 місяців тому

      Thank you Adrian.

    • @aliraid1186
      @aliraid1186 7 місяців тому +1

      I invite you to visit it. It has become beautiful and safe, and there are many beautiful tourist places and entertainment areas that were not shown in the video.

  • @CarloPernici
    @CarloPernici 7 місяців тому +5

    Beautiful and very useful video. Thanks for doing this!

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  7 місяців тому

      Thanks for the great feedback. Much appreciated.

  • @Pem8888
    @Pem8888 4 місяці тому +2

    This channel deserves 10M subs.

  • @jeremyledbetter8022
    @jeremyledbetter8022 8 місяців тому +6

    Such amazing culture and beautiful resilience of the people! Was it difficult getting there?

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  8 місяців тому +1

      No, it wasn't difficult, but it wasn't cheap either. I arranged a day trip from Erbil with Kurdistan Expeditions / Rocky Road. However, I understand that western tourists are having more difficulty getting there now due to the political situation. My visit was in October 2023.

    • @jeremyledbetter8022
      @jeremyledbetter8022 8 місяців тому +1

      @@TravelObscurerthank you for the reply! Seems like beautiful people there. What did you think of Mosul?

    • @aliraid1186
      @aliraid1186 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@jeremyledbetter8022I invite you to visit it. It has become beautiful and safe, and there are many beautiful tourist places and entertainment areas that were not shown in the video. In addition, Mosul International Airport will be restored after a short period, and you can come from it directly and without complications

    • @anastasia4068
      @anastasia4068 7 місяців тому

      Unfortunately people have no other homes, they should be resilient. How beautiful and strong was Iraq. My friends family was escaped from Baghdad to Syria in 2003. They lived their amazing life in Iraq, there was free high education, good price for buying food , petrol, cars, land . They could afford high level of living. New life in Aleppo had started and in 10 Years Syria Was destroyed as a state. There is no any country in the Middle East which is not suffering. It’s regretful. People just want to live , work. But…

    • @f4wnz132
      @f4wnz132 6 місяців тому

      @@anastasia4068 Foreign powers flexing on us and creating internal issues. There. I finished your sentence.

  • @iraq.places
    @iraq.places 6 місяців тому +3

    Welcome to Mosul and Iraq ❤

    • @NizamUddin-tu3xp
      @NizamUddin-tu3xp Місяць тому

      Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

  • @ayshamohammed1397
    @ayshamohammed1397 5 місяців тому +7

    I live in Mosul and never ever welcomed ISIS. Dont say all people welcomed these terrorists the majority of people hated them

    • @boudaswiss
      @boudaswiss 5 місяців тому

      شيعي مربع راس يضنون ان سنة دواعش 😂

    • @heimstaden4588
      @heimstaden4588 Місяць тому +1

      You are probly a pig with no salat

    • @NizamUddin-tu3xp
      @NizamUddin-tu3xp Місяць тому

      Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

  • @نجمالصفار-ز9ج
    @نجمالصفار-ز9ج 5 місяців тому +4

    Welcome to Iraq 🇮🇶 ❤

    • @boudaswiss
      @boudaswiss 5 місяців тому +1

      حاب نزور موصل 😢🇩🇿💔😔

    • @NizamUddin-tu3xp
      @NizamUddin-tu3xp Місяць тому

      Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

  • @liannasargsyan9202
    @liannasargsyan9202 5 місяців тому +2

    Mosul amazing city ❤

  • @natalieburns92
    @natalieburns92 Рік тому +2

    Very informative

  • @mikebrown41182
    @mikebrown41182 7 місяців тому +4

    Evil never wins, its simple as that. It thrives, it comes to qonquer, but it always lose, it's like a thread through the evolution of mankind. The endure of suffering is hard, but we will always rebuild, that is why evil cant sustain, it wont be the first or the last time it shows itself. Glad to see mosul rise from ashes. This is why i always raise my eyes when someone or something with ideology tries to rule, be it with or without religious belief, it does not matter, freedom always win, it can take time for it to be overruled and suffering in between but in the end freedom will prevail. Be it nazi’s germany, be it dictatorship in north korea, be it Putins russia, be it Daesh, the list is endless, fate always makes the evil los, goodness cant be defeated and that is something extra ordinary even if it rips life and invoke sorrow and pain.
    Long last peace is the next chapter.

    • @marciecorda5209
      @marciecorda5209 7 місяців тому +1

      Wasn't NINIVA - sinful city there before?

  • @predatorpeo4660
    @predatorpeo4660 4 місяці тому +2

    But this is Iraq, so nobody know what's coming next. best line I heard about my country lol

  • @fazepearl4537
    @fazepearl4537 4 місяці тому +2

    Fun fact: we are building the biggest waterpark in the whole of Iraq in Mosul

  • @arie.3
    @arie.3 5 місяців тому +1

    My beautiful city suffered a lot but we're doing our best to make it better
    + i,si,s weren't Muslim

  • @نجمالصفار-ز9ج
    @نجمالصفار-ز9ج 10 місяців тому +3

    Walkam to Iraq ❤❤

  • @brettlarson3801
    @brettlarson3801 3 місяці тому +2

    I was part of the final group of US soldiers to leave Mosul in March of 2020, we were based at Saddam’s presidential palace complex near the university. We then went to Erbil Airport.
    Thank you for this video, I injured my spine in Mosul and am now out of the military, I stayed in Iraq after that injury because I felt committed to the mission and took my service seriously as a 4th generation veteran. I hope to return to Mosul one day.

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  3 місяці тому

      Great to hear from you Brett. I hope you are able to return one day, under very different circumstances. Rebuilding will take a few years but the warmth of the people in Mosul shines through despite the destruction. You may be interested to see the film that I made about Erbil. Only a few miles away but now way ahead in terms of development. Jonathan

  • @abhigarg9540
    @abhigarg9540 22 дні тому +1

    “Historically Mosul was a place where Arabs, Christians and Jews co-existed” -> There are Arab Christians too so this statement is a bit misleading.

  • @cabdikahinshugricali3989
    @cabdikahinshugricali3989 8 місяців тому +1

    Weli mosul weyka muuqataa saameyntii dagaalka 2017/24 isbadal ween laguma sameyn xaga dhismaha

  • @نجمالصفار-ز9ج
    @نجمالصفار-ز9ج 5 місяців тому +2

    اشتركت في قناتك حظا سعيدا❤

  • @عَراقيههَححرهَ
    @عَراقيههَححرهَ 6 місяців тому +3

    Mosul was very beautiful before the war. Oh God, I hope it goes back to how it was 😭💔

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  6 місяців тому

      I hope so too 🙏

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 5 місяців тому

      I am British. I lived in Mosul for one year in the 1970s... I loved it and its people... I still weep at what the Americans through their appalling invasion and their bombing did to the city.... It is shocking that they are not even contributing to the attempts at reconstruction by the brave martyrised people of Mosul. I have several photographs of the lovely people I knew in Mosul back then.

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  5 місяців тому

      @@daydays12 I agree. Whilst my film focussed on the ISIS damage, that awful chapter would not have happened without the American invasion (cheered on by Blair). It's a long way back for Mosul from how it must have looked back in the 1970s.

  • @mohamedomar1162
    @mohamedomar1162 5 місяців тому +1

    Back to life 🎉

    • @NizamUddin-tu3xp
      @NizamUddin-tu3xp Місяць тому

      Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

  • @volcanowater
    @volcanowater 5 місяців тому +1

    8:52 bro that my neighborhood aint no way dawg

  • @Exocrotic-yn2ck
    @Exocrotic-yn2ck 9 місяців тому +2

    Hey my english brother were the only city/province that have all Abrahamic religionw and the only to have blondes and blue eyed people in iraq we want to be a part of turkey because the last time the land is turkish and only turkey can keep us safe and rebuild our harmony and alot of mousl have turkish orgin and alot knows turkish also our culture and furniture is stuck with the ottoman one old but uniquely turkish.

    • @emadiraq3450
      @emadiraq3450 8 місяців тому +1

      I am citizen of mosul noone want to be part of turkey

    • @Exocrotic-yn2ck
      @Exocrotic-yn2ck 8 місяців тому

      @@emadiraq3450 I am litterly there and everyone want to be a part of türkiye and I mean it everyone I just ask a random person in street and he will say yes I want mosul to be part of türkiye. Your a lier unless your the small villages that have the dumbest people

    • @Exocrotic-yn2ck
      @Exocrotic-yn2ck 8 місяців тому

      @@emadiraq3450 89% of mosul want to be türkiye and I did a survey to prove that and I am living in mosul and some put up the Turkish flag. I think you live in villages where you don't get a say since your just Arab immigrants.

    • @Raghad-eq2tt
      @Raghad-eq2tt 6 місяців тому +2

      انت تركماني لهيك حابب تنضم لتركيا
      الناس بحاجة خدمات و اعادة بناء ومو عصبية قبلية وقومية

  • @inmyopinion651
    @inmyopinion651 10 місяців тому +2

    I am curious if anyone there saw John Cantlie?

    • @TravelObscurer
      @TravelObscurer  10 місяців тому +2

      I think whatever happened to JC will remain a mystery.

    • @inmyopinion651
      @inmyopinion651 10 місяців тому +1

      @@TravelObscurer Yeah I followed his story for years and realize now he is presumed dead.

  • @نجمالصفار-ز9ج
    @نجمالصفار-ز9ج 10 місяців тому +1

    ❤🇮🇶👋

  • @gfast901
    @gfast901 5 місяців тому

    Keep filtering out comments that you don't like. People's opinions will not actually change

  • @Uuu-im3uw
    @Uuu-im3uw 2 місяці тому

    تغطيت بسبع بطانيات وبعدني متفشله 🗿

  • @mohankumarks3747
    @mohankumarks3747 6 місяців тому

    They were brutal because they were all pmccbp 😞 if they were pmrb they were peace loving people

  • @piked261
    @piked261 6 місяців тому

    Such kindness shown by the Americans 😂

  • @نجمالصفار-ز9ج
    @نجمالصفار-ز9ج 10 місяців тому +1

    انا من العراق اشتركت في قناتكم

  • @عثمانالعبيدي-ح3س
    @عثمانالعبيدي-ح3س 3 місяці тому

    الترجمه الى اللغة العربية

    • @NizamUddin-tu3xp
      @NizamUddin-tu3xp Місяць тому

      Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

  • @prestonperez923
    @prestonperez923 17 днів тому

    my fiancee is from here

  • @christking2206
    @christking2206 4 місяці тому +1

    .🏴‍☠️

  • @michaelheery6303
    @michaelheery6303 8 місяців тому

    Was there in 1980s what a DUMP horror region.

  • @Tarek_ElMaddah
    @Tarek_ElMaddah Рік тому +1

    Mossssul … not mozul!

  • @daniel3793
    @daniel3793 10 місяців тому +1

    Republik KURDISTAN 🎉

  • @NizamUddin-tu3xp
    @NizamUddin-tu3xp Місяць тому

    Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract anyone Iraqi brother?Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.