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Documentary film Immortals captures Iraq's post-uprising despair

'Immortals' won Best Documentary Feature at Raindance 2025. We spoke to director Maja Tschumi about the film's look at Iraq's youth after the Tishreen Movement

Zainab Mehdi
07 August, 2025
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Sololand by Hassan Blasim: Iraq's history told in three novellas

Robin Yassin-Kassab

Robin Yassin-Kassab

30 April, 2025
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Iraq
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Five years on: The legacy of Iraq's Tishreen protest movement

Hayder Al-Shakeri
28 October, 2024
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Iraq
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Demonstrators refuse Iraq's new gov’t 

Dana Taib Menmy
26 October, 2022
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Iraq
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Can Iraq's protest movement still make a difference?

Dana Taib Menmy
11 October, 2022
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Iraq
MENA
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Freed Iraqi activist hospitalised after torture by captors

The New Arab Staff
11 July, 2021
An Iraqi boy stands next to murals inspired by ongoing anti-government demonstrations in the Iraqi capital Baghdad's Tahrir square on 14 January 2020. [Getty]
Iraq
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The emergence of Iraq's new protest movement parties

Dr Zana Gulmohamad
07 July, 2021
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YPG
MENA
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More than dozen IS militants killed near 'caliphate capital'

The New Arab & agencies
03 January, 2016
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torture
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Cesar: Routine becomes nightmare in Syria torture cells

The New Arab
01 October, 2015
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torture
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Operation Cesar: Syrian regime crimes exposed

The New Arab
01 October, 2015