Dawai Naji (45 years old) from Basra, southern Iraq, lives in a whirlwind of anxiety about his mother, who is suffering from leukemia and has been hospitalized for weeks at Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital. He fears she might join his younger sister and nephew, who both died of cancer in 2014.…

(A.S.), a 19-year-old young man from Duhok, did not complete his middle school education. At a young age, he was drawn into the world of drugs, influenced by friends he encountered during a time when his parents were unaware of his changing path, despite their persistent but unsuccessful efforts to…

Ibtihal Salem, a 22-year-old woman incarcerated in the Central Women’s Prison in Baghdad, openly acknowledges her 12 arrests for drug trafficking. She claims that after each detention, she managed to persuade the security forces to release her, with only her drugs being seized, while she paid bribes to secure her…

On the morning of February 16, 2022, Arabic teacher Ali Kazem experienced a sudden stomach ache while lecturing his students at school. Continuous pain, vomiting, and diarrhea prompted his colleagues to taking him to a hospital in the Soq Al-Shuyukh, south of Nasiriya, the center of Dhi Qar Governorate (360…

Hawraa, a 32-year-old lawyer from Najaf, left the legal profession after practicing for nearly seven years. Her decision came after she was assaulted over a personal status lawsuit she was handling in 2022. Without a job, she turned to the cosmetics industry, which has since become her new source of…

“If thorough examinations were conducted on the region’s inhabitants, we would discover the extent of the catastrophe we are living in, with primitive refineries emitting their toxins day and night without any treatment.”