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…

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,…

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.” 

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The “political agreement” was disrupted by the harmony between the Iraqi Yazidis loyal to the “Workers” and the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces