Iraqi Street
Climate, Iraqi Street
WET, WARM AND WANTED: How water buffalo herding became an Iraqi Kurdish success story
By Salam Hanadni in Said Sadiq // On the Shahrizor plains, near the city of Said Sadiq in northern Iraq, four families farm around 500 water buffaloes — no mean feat in a place where summer temperatures regularly hit 47 degrees Celsius. Farming water buffalo is a very specific type of agriculture and requires a…
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…
