Iraq Campaign

A Welfare State is life after the #MosulOps 

By the very nature of the Mosul Operations, Iraq is under going change and with it, the Iraqi people are again changing. While many now debate a post-ISIS Iraq, what is actually being faced, is a period which echoes Britain and Europe in the wake of World Wars One and Two. 

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Saving Lives in Iraq: The AMAR Foundation Speaks 

The following interview was conducted by Hussein Al-alak, editor of Iraq Solidarity News (Al-Thawra), with Laura Puddefoot-Knaggs, who is the head of fundraising for the London based AMAR Foundation. 

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Playing for Time, Paul MacAlindin on Upbeat and Iraq 

The following interview was conducted by Hussein Al-alak, editor of Iraq Solidarity News (Al-Thawra), with Paul MacAlindin, who is the author of the new book Upbeat, the Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq. 

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The Way of the Cross, ACN on the Suffering Church 

The following interview was conducted by Hussein Al-alak, editor of Iraq Solidarity News (Al-Thawra), with Catherine of Aid to the Church in Need, who many have got to know through their groundbreaking work inside of Iraq and the wider Middle East. 

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The World Youth Day Legacy 

Like so many, I was thrilled by the presence of over 200 Iraqi young people at the World Youth Day celebrations in Krakow, Poland. Accompanying the young people from Iraq, included Bishops, Priests and Sisters, representing a broad layer of the Iraqi Christian community, from Churches in Baghdad through to Iraqi Kurdistan. 

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The Beats and the Bedouins 

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, day to day accounts of what was taking place, did not come from left or right wing journalists but from ordinary Iraqi writers, who in a style echoing the Beat Generation, gave outsiders a unique insight, which was lacking in both Britain and the United States. 

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Holocaust Education and the Iraqi Community 

The Holocaust education movement also has a longstanding history of including the situation in Iraq, where it’s inclusion first took place in the middle of the 1990’s at a Holocaust exhibition in Manchester. Inspired by the story of Anne Frank, the exhibition laid the foundations which drew a direct link with the atrocities in Europe, to those experienced in Iraq during the 1980’s and the 1990’s. 

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