On Sunday 3 September at the KinoClub, we will screen the documentary My father, Nour and I by Wiam Al-Zabari. Afterwards, there will be a Q&A with producer and editor Renko Douze.
Tag: Iraq
Yahya was imprisoned for years for taking part in protests. Despite threats, he refuses to remain silent about the hell of Iran's prison system.
As the years pass, some Iraqi Dutch struggle with whether they can and want to return to Iraq.
With their artworks, Iraqi artists Baldin Ahmad, Qassim Alsaedy and Rasmi Al-Khafaji create a general language without barriers, full of perception and ingenuity.
She was one of Iraq's best-known artists. But after Layla Al-Attar insulted former president George H.W. Bush with a mosaic, the Americans threw a cruise missile at her home in Baghdad.
After a terrorist attack in 2007, Al Mutanabbi street regained its glory. Today, the street in Baghdad is a place where all Iraqi cultures converge, writes Entisar El-Ghareeb.
Many refugees on the border of Belarus and Poland are from Iraqi Kurdistan. They are fleeing the poor economic and political situation in their own country.
Low-income people are hit hard by the corona crisis. It reminds Entisar Al-Ghareeb of Iraq in the 1990s.
Iran is seeking to push a controversial law through the Iraqi parliament with the help of allies in Baghdad. If passed, the law would turn Iraq into an open-air prison, writes Bahman Azarmidkht.
Bahman Azarmidkht has been waiting with wife and child in an AZC for two years for his asylum procedure to start. He cannot work, study or learn Dutch. It's better to be in prison, he says. ‘At least then you know how long you have left.’
