Laura Silvia Battaglia, on the set of Hanging Gardens, explores the burgeoning Iraqi film scene in Baghdad.
27 MARCH 2023 • By Laura Silvia BattagliaDunya Mikhail is a UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture laureate who has also won a UN Human...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Dunya MikhailIraqi lawyers and activists in a Baghdad-based NGO have been working to stop honor killings, but were unable...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Malu HalasaAn excerpt from Inaan Kachachi's novel that laments the scattering of Iraqis across the world as a result...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Inaam KachachiThis bleak and hyper real short story by Hassan Blasim is reminiscent of Ghassan Kanafani's novella "Men in the...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Hassan BlasimSparks fly when two UK-based Iraqi diaspora playwrights discuss how the art of theatre addresses Iraqi pain with...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Hassan AbdulrazzakNada Ghosn talks to sociologist Zahra Ali, author of "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation."
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Nada GhosnRachel Campbell finds that Ruqaya Izzidien's debut novel set in Iraq provides counter-narratives to the country's early 20th-century...
5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Rachel CampbellBerlin-based Jordanian artist and curator Ala Younis interviews Iraqi artist Ali Yass on his new work.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Ghazi GheblawiCultural historian Diana Abbani meditates on music among Berlin's Arab immigrants.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Diana AbbaniTranslator Alice Guthrie shares a preview of Al-Nadawi's exquisite 2017 novel "Qismet," a Kurdish story set in Iraq...
15 JUNE 2022 • By Hawra Al-NadawiNadje Al-Ali finds that Maysoon Pachachi’s film reflects her "long-standing commitment to highlight experiences of ordinary Iraqis, especially...
30 MAY 2022 • By Nadje Al-Ali