A Girl like a Bamboo Reed
Fouad el Hassan 2025-07-18
Fatima was denied even the dignity of death, though it circled close, its breath thick with the dust of earth. She was abducted by ISIS fighters at the age of...
For Women in Displacement Camps, Freedom Lies Beyond Their Walls
Fouad el Hassan 2025-07-13
Some of these women have spent more than a decade in the camp. It’s where they grew up and where they went to school. This life has shaped how they...
The Land of Clipped Braids
Fouad el Hassan 2025-03-23
Palestinians wrote their children’s names on their arms, so that their bodies aren’t lost, so that they recognise them after they’re bombed. This is what we failed to do. We...
Burnt Out: On the State of Iraq’s Mental Health
Mizar Kemal 2024-11-27
Iraq allocates merely 2% of its health sector’s budget to mental health, while the health sector itself receives no more than 5% of the three-year public budget (for the years...
Death is a Woman from Şingal
Fouad el Hassan 2024-06-05
People slept in the streets, and then it happened. Let there be queues, and there were queues. Queues to receive food, beds, and to beg for new guises of displacement....
An Invitation to Grieve: Latif al-Ani’s Photographs in New York
Nabil Salih 2024-02-02
I think of Baghdad’s wounds as I converse with Latif al-Ani’s photographs, which open up like passages through which I travel in time and wander beyond the dictatorial borders of...