Country: Iraq

Emad Aysha

From the Dark to the Dark: Asmaa El-Yamany’s time-travel novel brings a hopeless present to a predatory past

Previously I wrote a review of Asmaa el-Yamany’s novel Ashmadie. But the first novel of […]
Emad Aysha

An Eventful Occasion: China and the Arabs, from the Baghdad library to Sci-Fi in translation

I attended an event in late December at the Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo about […]
Arthur Blok

Lebanese entrepreneurs are taking over Dubai

Once flourishing, Lebanon is now a country in decline. The scale and scope of its […]
Emad Aysha

Paddling to the Promised Land, PART II – Cameron the submariner asks us to escape the American gree… blue zone!

Sigourney Weaver hasn’t been getting the attention she deserves these last few years, even in the Ghostbusters franchise. They fixed that here. Now she’s got her funk back if you ask me!
Emad Aysha

Paddling to the Promised Land, PART I – Jim Cameron’s long awaited ‘Avatar’ sequel rises to new depths!

Avatar 2 - The Way of Water, in 3D is actually really good. A bit predictable, a bit cheesy, and a bit too long, but with all that, it’s great.
The Liberum

The Iraq war authorization turns 20

The executive branch has used the still active law to justify unrelated conflicts, but it […]
The Liberum

Sadr finally deescalates situation in Baghdad

An influential Iraqi cleric called on his supporters to withdraw Tuesday from the capital's government […]
The Liberum

Scores killed as Sadr makes bid for Green Zone

Shelling targeted Baghdad's high-security Green Zone Monday, a security source said, after Shiite cleric Moqtada […]
The Liberum

How the killing of Iran’s top general squandered US leverage in Iraq today

Washington’s decision to take out Soleimani in Baghdad ruined its chances for playing a role […]
The Liberum

Arab women lambasted for being fatter than Arab men

To Enas Taleb, the headline felt like a spiteful punch line. "Why women are fatter […]
The Liberum

Sadr supporters take over parliament a second time

Supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" and occupied […]
The Liberum

Sadr supports breach Green Zone, storm parliament in repeat of January 6 riots

Hundreds of protesters have breached a high-security zone in Baghdad and broken into Iraq's parliament […]
The Liberum

Turkish consulate targeted by Iraqi rockets

Rockets hit the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul […]
The Liberum

Iraqis protest Turkish attack as formal denials issued in Ankara

Hundreds of angry Iraqis took to the streets late Thursday to decry deadly strikes on […]
The Liberum

Turkey launches major airstrike in Kurdish Iraq

Turkish airstrikes killed eight tourists in northern Iraq and wounded over 20, Iraqi Kurdish officials […]
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