TMR 28 • Iraq

Dunya Mikhail Knows Her Poetry Will Not Save You

Dunya Mikhail Knows Her Poetry Will Not Save You

Dunya Mikhail is a UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture laureate who has also won a UN Human...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Dunya Mikhail
Tiba al-Ali: A Death Foretold on Social Media

Tiba al-Ali: A Death Foretold on Social Media

Iraqi lawyers and activists in a Baghdad-based NGO have been working to stop honor killings, but were unable...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Dispossessed by Climate—Iraqi Refugees in Their Own Country

Dispossessed by Climate—Iraqi Refugees in Their Own Country

Writer-photographer Susan Schulman documents the climate devastation that has sent many Iraqis into internal exile.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Susan Schulman
Reading Iraq: Our Top 10 List of Iraqi Fiction

Reading Iraq: Our Top 10 List of Iraqi Fiction

A list of must-read Iraqi fiction, from Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad" to Sinan Antoon's "The Book of...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Rana Asfour
Fiction: Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal, or Tashari

Fiction: Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal, or Tashari

An excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Inaam Kachachi
“The Truck to Berlin”—Fiction from Hassan Blasim

“The Truck to Berlin”—Fiction from Hassan Blasim

This bleak and hyper real short story by Hassan Blasim is reminiscent of Ghassan Kanafani's novella "Men in the...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Hassan Blasim
Iraqi Diaspora Playwrights Hassan Abdulrazzak & Jasmine Naziha Jones: Use Your Anger as Fuel

Iraqi Diaspora Playwrights Hassan Abdulrazzak & Jasmine Naziha Jones: Use Your Anger as Fuel

Sparks fly when two UK-based Iraqi diaspora playwrights discuss how the art of theatre addresses Iraqi pain with...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Lahib Jaddo—An Iraqi Artist in the Diaspora

Lahib Jaddo—An Iraqi Artist in the Diaspora

Mischa Geracoulis interviews Texas-based multimedia artist Lahib Jaddo on her complex relationship with Iraq.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Hardi Kurda: Archiving the Sounds of Northern Iraq

Hardi Kurda: Archiving the Sounds of Northern Iraq

Melissa Chemam profiles Iraqi Kurdish musician-composer Hardi Kurda and his projects Space 21 and Archive Khanah: Sounds from...

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Melissa Chemam
Zahra Ali, Pioneer of Feminist Studies on Iraq

Zahra Ali, Pioneer of Feminist Studies on Iraq

Nada Ghosn talks to sociologist Zahra Ali, author of "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation."

FEBRUARY 5, 2023 • By Nada Ghosn
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