Iraq

Revisiting Iraq: A Sister On The Edge()  

March 22, 2013 In 2007, NPR told the story of two sisters who had lost their parents. The older sister wore conservative clothes and recited poetry. The younger sister, just 13 at the time, appeared on the verge of becoming a prostitute. Now, 10 years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, we hear what happened to them.

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Middle East

Face To Face With Death In Iraq()  

Residents visit the tomb of a  loved one at the New Kerbala cemetery in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq, in 2007.

March 21, 2013 Um Abbas has spent decades performing the Muslim ritual of washing the bodies of the dead to prepare them for burial. The war years in Iraq were terrible, she says, but in some ways, confronting death every day helped her cope with the country's trauma.

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Poetry

Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet()  

Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi-American poet who teaches in Michigan. She has published five books in Arabic and two in English.

March 21, 2013 Dunya Mikhail fled her homeland in the wake of the first Gulf War, after her writing was labeled subversive by Saddam Hussein's government. She has never physically returned to Iraq, but she remembers it in her poetry.

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