Ako is standing here on the famous Erbil citadel viewing down on the Kurdish capital’s central square. He works as a lawyer for a big Western oil and gas company and wants to do his master’s degree soon. In January 2020, he told me about hearing missiles exploding, which Iran…
Category: Iraq
This is the grave of Murad Khery, a Yazidi Peshmerga general, who fought against ISIS near Mount Sinjar in the summer of 2014. Thanks to his efforts more Yazidis were able to flee from the jihadists and thus escape murder or slavery. Murad Khery was killed in battle, falling victim…
Yazidi refugees who fled from ISIS in a makeshift refugee shelter in Sharya, 2017. It turns out that a lot of Yazidis are fans of German football club Borussia Dortmund.
“Living in Kurdistan is difficult; one job is not enough. I have to work several jobs to live”. Dashti is an electrical mechanic working at the University of Dohuk. When he finishes in the evening, he takes up his second profession as an interior designer, and sometimes he takes on…