The People Versus the Ruling Elite: A Timely Corrective
(Protests in Baghdad on July 14. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP) Earlier this year, I wrote about how a...
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How Cultural Heritage Can Help Iraqis Heal
(Students visit Basrah Museum. Photo: Persian Dutch Network/ CC-BY-SA-4.0) Iraqis, descendants of...
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Iraq’s First Space for Entrepreneurs
Last week, I was privileged to spend time in Baghdad at The Station. The Station is the first...
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Iraqis Unite for Better Services
(Demonstrations outside of local government in Basra. AFP) The waves of protests that have rocked...
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How Southern Iraq’s Protests can be Catalysts for Change
The current demonstrations were likely and certainly warranted. In the sweltering heat of Basra...
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Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking and Treating Drug Abusers in Iraq
(Iraqi Security Forces in possession of stacks of boxes containing drugs at Umm Qasr port in...
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How to Tackle Conflicts of Interest Within State Institutions
One of the biggest issues Iraq’s bureaucracy suffers from is conflict of interest. Conflicts of...
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Iraqi Prose in the Past and Present
A mural of Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab in Baghdad Iraqi literary language comes from its...
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Yasmin Younis on Reclaiming Iraqi Identity Abroad
Meet Yasmin Liwa Younis, the Iraqi-American COM’18 graduate and Student Speaker at Boston...
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Capturing the Tranquility of Southern Iraq
As the late great photographer Helen Levitt once said, “since I’m inarticulate, I express myself...
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