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If there's one voice that's been missing throughout the coverage of the Iraqi war, it's been that of the Iraqi women who are living it. Even in Metro Detroit – with its large Middle Eastern population ...

More than twice as many women are standing in Iraq's general election on Tuesday as four years ago, hoping for greater female representation in parliament despite the financial and social challenges ...

The purpose of 9 Parts of Desire is to get us thinking about Iraqis not in sectarian or sociological terms but as individuals. Thinking about them this way, coming face to face with the fucked-up ...

At this year’s Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Iraqi filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour marks a notable milestone with “Flana,” a documentary centered on the lived realities of Iraqi women. After its world premiere ...

Nearly 300 women ran through the streets of Iraqs Mosul on Thursday, in a demonstration of their freedoms eight months after the city was retaken from the Islamic State group. The 900-metre run was ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The two radio hosts, Majda and Majid, a chattering woman-and-man team, said the subject for the next hour would be childbearing and motherhood, from the first flush of pregnancy to ...

An Iraqi team of table tennis Paralympic hopefuls has been practising in a local community centre with broken tables and patchy electricity — Hayder INDHAR Iraqi table tennis player Nur al-Huda Sarmad ...