This testimony recounts how Kawther Bashar's attempt to escape violence and a forced marriage ended with her murder in the hills of Al-Nahrawan.

Iraq’s social classes were not shaped by market conditions. They emerged according to the ruling order. This article traces how oil, wars, and post-2003 state-building reshaped Iraqi society. Class became tied to…

From primary school to university and the workplace, Doaa, Amal, and Lamees have spent years searching for one of their most basic rights: access to a clean toilet. From dealing with broken,…

In December 2025, the author accessed newly released British government files at The National Archives in London. Twenty-three years after the invasion of Iraq, they shed light on allegations of abuse by…

Ali Al-Zaidi, the man tasked with forming the new government, has a record that stretches from parliamentary economic committees and party politics to the food market; alongside a four-trillion-dinar debt and mounting…

The article explores how ideas surrounding the end of the world and the Messiah among Christians, Jews, Sunnis, Shiites, and others have become part of politics and warfare, and are no longer…