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 influence and authority rather than to the means of production or cultural capital.…
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, absent, locked, or even mixed-gender facilities, their stories reveal the daily struggle that…
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 UK forces during the 2003 war - revealing how claims long reported 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 questions over conflicts of interest.
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…
How does an Iraqi think the moment war breaks out on thier land, or in neighboring countries? What do they remember? What do they fear? And how do experiences like siege, bombing,…
France is opening a new door to return cultural property taken from former colonies during the colonial era, but that door comes with complex conditions and difficult questions for countries like Iraq.…
What does it mean for oil to stop in a country where everything is based on oil? This article analyzes how Iraq reached this economic crisis, why its options seem limited, and…
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…
How does an Iraqi think the moment war breaks out on thier land, or in neighboring countries? What do they remember? What do they fear? And how do experiences like siege, bombing,…
France is opening a new door to return cultural property taken from former colonies during the colonial era, but that door comes with complex conditions and difficult questions for countries like Iraq.…
What does it mean for oil to stop in a country where everything is based on oil? This article analyzes how Iraq reached this economic crisis, why its options seem limited, and…
How does an Iraqi think the moment war breaks out on thier land, or in neighboring countries? What do they remember? What do they fear? And how do experiences like siege, bombing, shelters, and loss manifest in daily routines? How do they shape the way we eat, sleep, and show up in unseen survival mechanisms? In this collection, we share two experiences on how war and insecurity awaken and persisit within the self, al-nafs, and how they manifest outwardly.
I thought I had moved beyond everything that happened in Baghdad, that a new country might grant me a different life. But my memory still carries the traces of war. After long attempts to understand the fear of the child within me, then the adolescent, then the young woman, I realized that what we carry inside us does not remain behind. It follows us wherever we go.
In this essay, the author writes about protest as inheritance. Beginning with a childhood memory of protest, she traces how the Iraq war came to shape the way she sees the world, where Iraq returns, again and again, in every injustice that follows.
In this personal tribute, Nazli Tarzi, a family friend of Yanar Mohammed, reflects on the life and legacy of one of Iraq’s fiercest women’s rights defenders.
The story begins with a third bullet, and continues until stray missiles fired between Israel and Iran fall on the edges of Iraq. Surveillance cameras, war and thirst. The writer of these diary entries tries to find meaning in living as she stands on the threshold of twenty-five.
How does an Iraqi think the moment war breaks out on thier land, or in neighboring countries? What do they…
How does an Iraqi think the moment war breaks out on thier land, or in neighboring countries? What do they remember? What do they fear? And how do experiences like siege, bombing, shelters, and loss manifest in daily routines? How do they shape the way we eat, sleep, and show…
I thought I had moved beyond everything that happened in Baghdad, that a new country might grant me a different…
I thought I had moved beyond everything that happened in Baghdad, that a new country might grant me a different life. But my memory still carries the traces of war. After long attempts to understand the fear of the child within me, then the adolescent, then the young woman, I…
In this essay, the author writes about protest as inheritance. Beginning with a childhood memory of protest, she traces how…
In this essay, the author writes about protest as inheritance. Beginning with a childhood memory of protest, she traces how the Iraq war came to shape the way she sees the world, where Iraq returns, again and again, in every injustice that follows.
In this personal tribute, Nazli Tarzi, a family friend of Yanar Mohammed, reflects on the life and legacy of one…
In this personal tribute, Nazli Tarzi, a family friend of Yanar Mohammed, reflects on the life and legacy of one of Iraq’s fiercest women’s rights defenders.
The story begins with a third bullet, and continues until stray missiles fired between Israel and Iran fall on the…
The story begins with a third bullet, and continues until stray missiles fired between Israel and Iran fall on the edges of Iraq. Surveillance cameras, war and thirst. The writer of these diary entries tries to find meaning in living as she stands on the threshold of twenty-five.
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 distant religious beliefs detached from reality.
In this article, the author examines how Iraq’s Personal Status Code has weakened legal safeguards for women and girls, particularly by facilitating child marriage and creating a parallel religious legal regime. Drawing on...
