On the morning of January 1, 2024, 28-year-old Hussein Ne’ma was going about his usual duties as a furnace operator at the “Al-Janabi” brick factory in the Zaid Bin Ali area of Babil province, southern Iraq. As he stood atop the brick-constructed furnace, refueling it with black oil, the roof…

نخب اكاديمية ومدنية تطلق مبادرة “عراقيون” للإصلاح السياسي والاجتماعي

On December 22, 2024, the Karkh Court of First Instance issued a ruling fining Iraqi journalist Qais Hassan five million Iraqi dinars in a lawsuit filed against him by former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in August 2024 on charges of “insult and defamation.” Hassan is just one of dozens of…