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SWINISH BEHAVIOUR: How to deal with ‘rogue gangs’ of Iraqi marsh pigs terrorizing farmers?

By Alaa Koli // In Iraq's southern marshes, farmers are confronting a growing challenge that is changing daily life and agriculture: Wild pigs. There has been an increase in wild pig populations and, along with that, their potentially destructive behaviour. What was once a manageable animal in the wetlands has become a nightly threat to…

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Society

HISTORY IN SONG: Visiting the largest private archive of Kurdish music

By Salam Hanadani in Hawraman, Iraqi Kurdistan // The moment the door opens, sound pours out. Melodies drift, notes are carried from a distant era, and shelves are crowded with cassette tapes and aging recorders, a vast musical memory that preserves decades of Kurdish artistic heritage. At the centre of this musical world is Ibrahim…

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Opinion

MOURNING THE SHADOWS: A writer’s lament for the lost trees of a burning city

By Nagham Makki in Basra // I walk along the Shatt al‑Arab corniche to clear my mind and to take a few photos for one of the reports I’m working on. I search for a corner that might shield me from the unbearable summer sun but all I find are scattered palm trees planted along…

Iraqi Street

Society

TROUBLED WATERS: Al Faw’s fishing industry, caught between borders and war

By Saad Nadhim in Basra // Before dawn breaks over Iraq’s southern coastline, fisherman Ahmed al-Janoubi is already preparing for another journey into the Gulf. At 53, the father of five has spent most of his life at sea, in a profession his family has undertaken for generations. But these days, every fishing trip carries…

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Iraqi Street

‘WE CAN’T BREATHE’: How the Iran war is poisoning Iraqi Kurdistan’s air

By Bwar Qadir in Sulaymaniyah // In one of the quiet alleys of the Bakhtiari neighborhood in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, Rankin Mahmoud, 61, complains that she must once again deal with thick black smoke and polluted air. The pollution is due to the many large diesel-powered generators that provide electricity to private…

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Climate, Iraqi Street

SWINISH BEHAVIOUR: How to deal with ‘rogue gangs’ of Iraqi marsh pigs terrorizing farmers?

By Alaa Koli // In Iraq's southern marshes, farmers are confronting a growing challenge that is changing daily life and agriculture: Wild pigs. There has been an increase in wild pig populations and, along with that, their potentially destructive behaviour. What was once a manageable animal in the wetlands has become a nightly threat to…

Iraqi Street, Society

HISTORY IN SONG: Visiting the largest private archive of Kurdish music

By Salam Hanadani in Hawraman, Iraqi Kurdistan // The moment the door opens, sound pours out. Melodies drift, notes are carried from a distant era, and shelves are crowded with cassette tapes and aging recorders, a vast musical memory that preserves decades of Kurdish artistic heritage. At the centre of this musical world is Ibrahim…

Climate, Opinion

MOURNING THE SHADOWS: A writer’s lament for the lost trees of a burning city

By Nagham Makki in Basra // I walk along the Shatt al‑Arab corniche to clear my mind and to take a few photos for one of the reports I’m working on. I search for a corner that might shield me from the unbearable summer sun but all I find are scattered palm trees planted along…

Iraqi Street, Society

TROUBLED WATERS: Al Faw’s fishing industry, caught between borders and war

By Saad Nadhim in Basra // Before dawn breaks over Iraq’s southern coastline, fisherman Ahmed al-Janoubi is already preparing for another journey into the Gulf. At 53, the father of five has spent most of his life at sea, in a profession his family has undertaken for generations. But these days, every fishing trip carries…