What did going to the cinema mean in twentieth-century Iraq? It could mean chasing film flyers through the streets, saving for a 40-fils ticket, dressing in the latest fashion, memorising a song…

It is almost seven years since the Tishreen uprising.  Recent protests by graduates in Baghdad recall some of the grievances that drove it. These graduate protests are reminiscent of the beginnings of Tishreen itself.…

Five people of different ages and backgrounds take us through their working days in Jummar’s newsroom. Writing, designing and publishing, and answering their families’ question, ‘What do you do?’ For older relatives,…

Across Canada, the Gulf and hip-hop, Yassin al-Salman knew what it meant to be a visitor. Music gave him somewhere to speak, carrying Iraq into rooms where its people were too often…

One woman went into labour while harvesting crops. Another gave birth on a tractor, halfway through a three-hour journey to hospital. A third nearly died after an unlicensed midwife injected her three…