Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
AUGUST 23, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
AUGUST 9, 2024 • By Zêdan Xelef
Iraqi novelist Diaa Jubaili's short story, translated by Chip Rossetti, portrays dolls as unlikely victims of life under...
JULY 5, 2024 • By Diaa Jubaili
From sound and installation to sculpture & photography, art and a history of violence collide in Rushdi Anwar’s...
MAY 10, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
What shall we forget and what shall we remember, and can forgetting also be a force for good?...
MAY 3, 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Photographs of Iraqis imply doom due to generational violence, even in happy pictures.
MAY 3, 2024 • By Nabil Salih
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...
DECEMBER 3, 2023 • By Maryam Haidari
In the aftermath of his father's death by shrapnel from an Iraqi shell, Dilan Qadir contends with a...
NOVEMBER 28, 2023 • By Dilan Qadir
Matt Broomfield reviews the first anthology of Kurdish science fiction, one that envisions new possibilities for Kurdish self-determination.
NOVEMBER 28, 2023 • By Matthew Broomfield
Ahmed Twaij, a physician and journalist with experience in Iraq and other war zones, argues Hamas and ISIS...
NOVEMBER 27, 2023 • By Ahmed Twaij
