With the beginning of the popular demonstrations in October 2019, the youth reclaimed public spaces as entirely their own. They felt free, for the first time, to express themselves outside...
The following is a documentation of the chronicles of the popular demonstrations and their heroes in the squares of ten Iraqi governorates: Baghdad, Nasiriyah, Basra, Karbala, Najaf, Wasit, Babylon, Samawah,...
Women’s fate is often interlinked with wars; they pay its highest prices; face all forms of social, political, and economic violence; and their stories, when later told, are most marginalised....
As soon as the protests took off, thousands of young people gathered in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, echoing countless concerns and questions. The desperate, the unemployed, the infuriated with families...
The unprecedented process of popular unity since “October uprising”, show that Iraqi women and men are healing from decades of war and social fragmentation.
There are certain fears of a societal aftershock as a natural symptom of post-traumatic times. The questions are many concerning the extent of the Iraqi government’s ability to calibrate a...
