There’s a myth that historically authoritarian cultures need authoritarian leadership. In fact, servant leadership can be the ...

Eight Iraqi doctors and an Iraqi journalist are traveling around Minnesota to increase cultural understanding between Iraq and U.S. citizens. The Iraqi doctors shared what it's like living through war ...

From the very beginning of the U.S. intervention in Iraq and the effort to build some kind of democracy there, a simple but gnawing question has lurked in the background: Was Iraq the way Iraq was (a ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, April 3 (UNHCR) - As the Iraq crisis enters its sixth year, the UN refugee agency has been highlighting the culture and artistic talents of the Iraqi people during a weeklong festival ...

Years of war and insurgency have taken a heavy toll on Iraq's many cultural treasures — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Wandering Baghdad's legendary book street, recently renovated, the UN's cultural chief pledged ...

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from environmental and political mismanagement. As the water disappears, so too does a ...

ThatIraqi Artists in Exile, at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, serves up a scathing view of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. But the exhibit goes ...

Deborah Amos reports on the new craze in Iraq: plastic surgery. Well-off Iraqis are seeing Western-style pop music videos featuring thin women with small noses and deciding to go under the knife. To ...

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Before he quit as head of Iraq’s antiquities board, Donny George made a final desperate attempt this summer to safeguard the relics of 5,000 years of history: He ordered the doors of ...

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's upcoming film follows Navy SEALs during the Iraq War in 2006. ('Warfare' screengrab/A24/YouTube) Fresh off the release of his 2024 blockbuster “Civil War,” writer and ...