Baghdad
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Immortals
IRAQ: Three voices seek identity and connection as Baghdad emerges as a living character shaped by politics and patriarchy.
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Death, everywhere
IRAQ: The hopes and broken dreams of a generation who has known nothing but war since the country's U.S.-led occupation.
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Why are the youth in Iraq protesting?
IRAQ: In Iraq, the youth don't trust the politicians or the parties. We met the director and producer of Baghdad on Fire, which addresses the bad governance of their country's leaders and the mobilisation of the youth who really fight for change.
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«I relish being a stranger in a strange land»
MDOC: Modern Times Review spoke with photographer and filmmaker Maythem Ridha on his experiences as an Iraqi in the UK, journey to film and photography, favourite Middle Eastern films, and more.
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To be a stranger in one’s own town
IRAQ: The Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written an excellent book that dispels the typical view of a sectarian and divided society as the main cause of Iraq's long and continuing tragedy.
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The first casualty of war
JOURNALISM: The failure of contemporary journalism to hold power to account in Western imperialist wars.
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War is a racket
CONFLICT: The story of a Romanian soldier in the Afghan war and that of a young girl who found herself in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
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No escape
CONFLICT: Eléonore Weber's chilling compilation of military footage reveals the casual killing by men in flying machines who risk nothing in the pursuit of state-sanctioned murder.