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Dalia Al-Dujaili: “When you’re placeless, nature can fill the void”

Babylon, Albion — As her new book publishes, the British-Iraqi author speaks about connecting with the land as a second-generation migrant, plants as symbols of resistance, and being proud of her parents.

  • Culture
  • Zahra Onsori
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In Baghdad, skater girls are reshaping Iraqi womanhood

Baghdad is rad — As the city’s first skatepark opens, the new space is providing a blank canvas for its board culture. Dalia Dawood speaks to the people looking to make its ramps and rails a safe haven for women and girls.

  • Sport
  • Dalia Dawood

Baghdad’s first skatepark set to open next week

Make Life Skate Life — Opening to the public on February 1, it will be located at the Ministry of Youth and Sports in the city centre and free-of-charge to use.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

The everyday voices silenced in our coverage of the Middle East

Until women and young people are heard, we won’t break this cycle of destruction and dehumanisation, argues director Maysoon Pachachi.

  • Opinion
  • Maysoon Pachachi

How Taliban rule is disrupting the UK heroin market

Overwhelmed by opium — Disruptions to the flow of opium and heroin out of Afghanistan are leading to an increase in the presence of harmful opioids in the UK, as well as threatening the livelihoods of ordinary Afghan people who depend on narcotics revenue for survival.

  • Activism
  • Rebecca Tidy

A searing elegy on war in Iraq and Afghanistan

Attention servicemember — From 2003 to 2008, Ben Brody worked as a combat photographer in Iraq, capturing both the immense brutality and unseen, candid moments that defined the war.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Capturing the revival of the Yazidi community

'I am Yazidi again' — Brazilian photographer Marcio Pimenta's new photography book captures the intimate moments of the Yazidi people's return to their ancestral home in northern Iraq.

  • Photography
  • Rachel Hagan

A conflict photographer reflects on his time in Iraq

The Grass — Photographer Cengiz Yar has seen things – from the rebels’ battle to oust Assad in Syria, to the human fallout of conflict in Iraq. But it was away from the frontlines that he truly came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own.

  • Magazine
  • Cengiz Yar

A personal journey through modern Iraqi Kurdistan

Under every yard of sky — Photojournalist Sebastian Meyer weaves his documentary photography of a conflicted region with his own heartbreaking journey of friendship and loss.

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

The renegade medic saving both soldiers and civilians

On the frontlines — After landing in Iraq, former marine Pete Reed went rogue and set up his own war-zone clinics. Otherwise they simply wouldn’t exist. Now, while struggling in the vacuum of a failed system, he faces a new challenge: not letting that system beat him.

  • Culture
  • Campbell MacDiarmid

How Latif Al Ani captured the ‘golden age’ of Iraq

From the 1950s to the 1970s — Hailed as the ‘father of Iraqi photography’, Al Ani’s iconic black and white shots offer a new perspective on Baghdad’s history.

  • Photography
  • HUCK HQ

The Iraqi art world is alive and kicking

It always has been — While instability in Iraq continues fuelled by Western intervention, a new generation of young artists are creating work that looks to the future.

  • Culture
  • Noora Ismail

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