The New Arab Meets: Educator and activist Noor Ghazi to discuss the double bind of being Iraqi-American and the ways her dual identities compete, interchange and complement each other.
March 2023 marked the 20-year anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The war, violence and reconstruction efforts that followed have had an impact on Iraq’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Following the collapse of the government, looting occurred at an unprecedented scale. The most well-publicized instance was the looting of the national museum of Iraq (founded one hundred years ago, in March of 1923, as a single room in a government building housing artifacts and curated by the British Orientalist Gertrude Bell).
MOSUL: The horrors they endured under the Daesh group may be in the past for the people of Iraq, but the traumatic memories remain. Now a research project is recording their witness testimonies for posterity. Omar Mohammed, founder of the Mosul Eye project, rose to prominence during the Daesh reign by bravely sharing news via Twitter from inside the city under jihadist rule.
The Netherlands is disclosing previously classified information about Dutch air strikes on ISIS-targets in Iraq and Syria. The move comes after Dutch journalists found new evidence of civilian casualties in a Dutch attack on Mosul in March 2016.
Civilian casualties in Iraq: The Netherlands is disclosing previously classified information about Dutch air strikes on ISIS-targets in Iraq and Syria. The…