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Seventy Years since the Departure of Iraqi Jews
imad - January 15, 2021The majority of Iraqi Jews were dislocated in the wake of the U.N. partition of Palestine, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Nakba. Between 1950—1951, about 120,000 Iraqi Jews ended up departing, largely for Israel, in a process called tasqit al-jinsiyya—the precondition of waiving of Iraqi citizenship required for exiting without the possibility of return. This exodus,
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One little girl. One BIG hope.
imad - January 15, 2021Little Amal, a young refugee, embarks on a remarkable journey – an epic voyage that will take her across Turkey, across Europe. To find her mother. To get back to school. To start a new life. Will the world let her? Can she achieve what now seems more impossible than ever? Following the phenomenal international
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Wesaam Albadry
imad - January 14, 2021Wesaam Al-Badry was born in 1984 in Nasiriyah, Iraq. When Al-Badry was seven years old, at the outset of what became known as the Gulf War, Al-Badry’s mother fled on foot with her five children, including his six-day-old sister, as artillery shells fell around them. After hiking for three days, sometimes through knee-deep mud, they arrived