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 2024-06-27
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...
Education in Iraq: The Detours of Collapse
Mizar Kemal 2024-01-04
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...
We Waited for “The Matrix” to Fill Our World with Justice
Amani Al-Hassan 2023-09-29
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...