Hoshang Waziri

My Kurdish Oppressor

“Did they beat you up?” my son asked when I finally got home. Just as my father had refused to tell us what he saw in the torture rooms of Saddam Hussein’s Mukhabarat, I didn’t tell my son everything I had witnessed in detention or at the protest that day.

Iraq’s Unhealed Wounds

In Zaradasht Ahmed’s film, everyone whose lives have been affected or ruined by this war are trying to grasp why this is happening to them and their country.

ISIS After the Caliphate

Our research team has been working on the front lines of the fight with ISIS since the beginning of 2015. ISIS may have lost its state, the Caliphate, but it hasn’t necessarily lost the allegiance of Sunni Arabs in the region to its core values.