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To Receive Asylum, You First Have to be Believed, and Accepted

To Receive Asylum, You First Have to be Believed, and Accepted

Mischa Geracoulis reviews the new book from Dina Nayeri on refugees and asylum seekers who must be believed...

5 MARCH 2023 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Home Under Siege: a Palestine Photo Essay

Home Under Siege: a Palestine Photo Essay

Anam Raheem spent five years working in Gaza and the West Bank, and felt herself at home among...

5 MARCH 2023 • By Anam Raheem
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...

5 FEBRUARY 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...

5 FEBRUARY 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.

5 FEBRUARY 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...

5 FEBRUARY 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...

5 FEBRUARY 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...

5 FEBRUARY 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...

5 FEBRUARY 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.

5 FEBRUARY 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...

5 FEBRUARY 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."

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Nada Ghosn
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