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...
Condemned to a lifetime in limbo, countless Baghdadis have lost not only what Henri Lefebvre calls the right to the city – that right has long been stolen.
During 2007, amidst the raging sectarian conflicts that plagued Baghdad and other Iraqi regions, Iraq's national football team won the Asian Cup. A popular song echoed among football fans, encapsulating...
