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Iraq’s Weathervanes | Intuitive Reactions

December 3, 2020December 18, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

I joined friend and ecumenical lawyer Harry Hagopian for a discussion on Iraq’s weathervanes — the under-represented communities whose subjugation to injustice can tell us more about society as a whole than we think.

Give it a listen, and apologies in advance for Iraq’s unreliable internet as we were recording:

‘Revenge porn,’ leaked selfies: sextortion spreads in Iraq | AFP

November 20, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 20, 2019]

Baghdad (AFP) – The threat came by anonymous Instagram message one late Iraqi evening, making Hala’s blood run cold: “I’ve got all your pictures and recordings. Shall I send them to your dad?”

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Flesh and Blood | AFP

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 16, 2019]

Her dark hair was pulled back by a white scrunchie and she had chipped pink polish on her nails. Like any teenager, I thought. But the words she spoke were as far from a carefree teenagedom as you could get.

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Men still missing, Yazidi women stitch together incomes after IS | AFP

July 14, 2019July 15, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 14, 2019]

On the floor of her stuffy, dimly-lit tent in Iraq, Yazidi survivor Layleh Shemmo nimbly tugs floral pink fabric through her sewing machine, stitching together a living for her broken family.

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Agony of Yazidi women torn between IS kids, or return home | AFP

July 14, 2019July 15, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 14, 2019]

Baadre (Iraq) (AFP) – Freed after years in jihadist captivity, Jihan faced an agonising ultimatum: abandon her three small children fathered by an Islamic State fighter or risk being shunned by her community.

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Yazidi doctor soldiers on in mental battle against IS | AFP

March 13, 2019April 4, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here March 13, 2019]

Dohuk (Iraq) (AFP) – The military fight against the Islamic State group may be nearing an end, but one Yazidi doctor treating survivors is soldiering on against unseen scars the jihadists carved into her community.

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In Syria, families flee IS holdout to dust and desperation | AFP

February 14, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 14, 2019]

The cry echoed across the chalk-dry Syrian plain: “Water!” Within seconds, the truck carrying a few dozen bottles was emptied by parched refugees who had spent the night out in the open.

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In eastern Syria, the infants of a dying IS ‘caliphate’ | AFP

February 12, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 12, 2019]

They were born in a “state” that no longer exists, most to fathers who are dead and mothers whose countries don’t want them back. These are the children pouring out of Baghouz.

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Fleeing IS holdout, French women say foreigners still inside | AFP

February 11, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 11, 2019]

Two French women who fled the Islamic State group’s last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists.
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Barely alive after IS, Syrian babies haunted by malnutrition | AFP

February 8, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here February 8, 2019]

They survived the Islamic State group’s crumbling “caliphate” by a thread, but skeletal babies streaming into this displacement camp in northeastern Syria now face a race against malnutrition.

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Blossoms, butterflies, and new beginnings. I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining the Thomson Reuters Foundation as a regional correspondent, covering climate, socioeconomic justice, human rights and other key issues across the Middle East. Do get in touch with any story tips and recommendations! It's been an incredible six-year adventure with AFP and I'm so excited for this new ride.
The last story in our AFP series on corruption is about hope. Hope for better days ahead for Iraq. Hope that the unprecedented popular protests of 2019 could force a change in the country's broken politics. It was a hope that flared, burned bright, but was ultimately extinguished. Read about this rollercoaster through the eyes of Hassanein, a father of four who has risked his life for change, in the story linked in my bio.
In the second part of our series on corruption, AFP profiled the outspoken, hardworking and slightly-obsessive Taif al-Sami, who heads the budget office at #Iraq's finance ministry. Taif has survived war, state collapse, threats of violence from patronage networks and (of course) the patriarchy to become one of the only high-ranking female officials in Iraq's behemoth bureaucracy. Read her story in the link in my bio.
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