A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, @jacobinmag.bsky.social, and elsewhere. PhD candidate @gvagrad.bsky.social
Nabil Salih
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Change in Iran: ‘this is not some other people’s fight’
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Nabil Salih
Someone tell @afp.com and @reuters.com to wake up.
Iraq closes airspace for 72 hours.
Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah threatens to attack Washington’s “bases and interests” in the country in the event the US sides with Israel after tonight’s escalation with Iran.
Even the World Cup squad announcement is an embarrassment in Iraq. AI generated, automated male voiceover, cliched references to Babylon, a hollowed image dominated by the face of a white coach here to assuage an old yearning for colonial mentorship. This is how incompetence and corruption manifest.
Protests return to Baghdad, farmers from parched peripheries and unemployed graduates priced out in the gentrified capital. A poem by Sargon Boulus, the vagabond Beatnik from al-Habaniyyah, says: "the people demand bread, each loaf is a mourning flag." And each politician is a thief, the people cry.
