She recently went to Dubai, where she gave seminars on merchandising for Liwa Trading Enterprise, a retail arm of the conglomerate Al Nasser Holdings.

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But these and other reported grievances are being vigorously contested by Iraq's minister of state for antiquities, Liwa Sumaysim, a member of Moqtada al Sada's party.

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Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.

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