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...
The collapse of the public education sector, widespread corruption in the education system, the transferring of the Ministry of Education from one party to another (as per the post-2003 Iraqi...
Everything seemed to come to a halt in the period leading up to the US occupation of Iraq in April 2003. Everyday life, educational institutions, and government offices all came...
It was the first year of the occupation. In that atmosphere filled with the smoke of bombings and the fumes of fires, even the healthiest of eyes suffered. What, then,...
I belong to the generation that celebrated the war's conclusion in the summer of 1988. For three consecutive days, the streets teemed with Iraqis singing and dancing in response to...
The numbers say that 200,000 civilians and an equal number of soldiers, children of these civilians, lost their lives in the war. But nobody keeps track of the number of...
