2023
The plight of minorities in Iraq: violence, discrimination, and the
Some minorities are unrecognized, while others bear arms or resort to Taqiya (a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice) to ensure their security
11,000 families in the agony of waiting… What is the
Nawzat Shamdine – translated by Walaa Rayya Souad Ahmed (63 years old) spends hours of her day in her missing son's (Amjad) bedroom, talking to his pictures and smelling his clothes. Then she spreads her prayer mat on the floor, and with a crying voice, she prays for him to return to her, his wife, and his only son. These rituals have been a constant part of her life for nearly nine years. Amjad was a member of the local police before ISIS seized control of Mosul on June 10, 2014. He left with the withdrawing security forces towards Erbil,…
Suicide in Iraq … the Cover-Up for Femecide and a
Ahmad Al Rabihi and Hassan Al Nassiri / November 2020: 08.09.2The Iraqi police received a report recently of a bride’s suicide one day after her marriage, found hanging from a rope bound from the ceiling of her room … This investigation reveals the reasons for the escalation of suicides in Iraq, as well as how many murders of women end up recorded as suicides. On a sandalwood chair, in a small room at his grandmother’s house on the outskirts of al-Shatrah town, Ismael (29 years old) was found unconscious, his body bent over, with his head almost touching the ground. This…
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Suicide in Iraq … the Cover-Up for Femecide and a
Ahmad Al Rabihi and Hassan Al Nassiri / November 2020: 08.09.2The Iraqi police received a report recently of a bride’s suicide one day after her marriage, found hanging from a rope bound from the ceiling of her room … This investigation reveals the reasons for the escalation of suicides in Iraq,…
Journalists in a Coffin, Killers on the Loose
In the course of about a decade, Mosul witnessed the assassination of some 82 journalists and media employees, not including the ones that disappeared at the hands of ISIS. “All cases of targeting and assassinating journalists in Nineveh until 2014 were registered against unknown persons, no criminals were ever identified.”
“Pleasure Marriage:” Thinly Veiled Legal Prostitution
This investigation reveals how Iraqi clerics continue to support Nikah Mut’ah (pleasure marriage), although the temporary legal arrangement is widely misused as a vehicle for sexual exploitation and prostitution. nirij March 2023: “I had no alternative but to arrange a temporary marriage to support my children”, says “Fatima,” a young…
One Third of Marriages End in Divorce or Separation
Fadia Abd Al-Hamid Al-Tai/ june 2022 “Suddenly, there was a newfound openness. People entered the era of the Internet, satellite channels and smartphones. Iraqi women began looking at the experiences of women in other parts of the world and tried to construct a new modern image for themselves. But this…
From a border crossing to a center… Iraqi Kurdistan is
Salah Baban – translated by Walaa Rayya: “Naz Ali” (27 years old) never imagined that the man she fell in love with and married, Farshad Anayat, who had come to Sulaymaniyah from Kermanshah, Iran, was a professional drug dealer. The Iranian young man presented himself to her as a researcher…
“We are human too”.. Ostracized families in the informal settlements
Nawzat Shamdeen – Iraqi journalist – translated by Walaa Rayya 09.01At 4 am every day, dozens of young men and children gather at a garbage collection center near the Al-Obour district in western Mosul, the center of Nineveh Province (405 km north of Baghdad), waiting for garbage trucks coming from…
“Early marriage” or “spinsterhood”: two growing phenomena under social constraints
Hanan Salem / Baghdad / August 2022 Despite being in her 30s, Fatima Hassan is still affected by the story of her older aunt who was married at only 12 years old. Specifically, she is affected by her aunt’s confusion about whether to bring her favorite doll with her to…
Sinjar battles: the conflict of the local forces encouraged by
The “political agreement” was disrupted by the harmony between the Iraqi Yazidis loyal to the “Workers” and the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces
