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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

On the night train from #Baghdad to #Basra !

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

“Iranian women have been battling for their rights for these past 43 years... Stop a generation of women from running, and they give birth to girls with wings... It is the sunlight that keeps us all safe.” — Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe writes in @thetimes ♥️

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Re-opening event of the Central Library at Mosul University 😊 📸: @meethak55

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

#NewProfilePic (and the ☀️ is out!)

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@AlannahTravers

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As thousands of Yazidis yet again flee Shingal for the Kurdistan Region ~ last night, dep governor of Duhok told us that over *3,000* people have left due to ISF-YBS clashes ~ this is a fascinating piece by @_____mjb on the YJS: the women's wing of the YBS

‘We never accepted surrender:’ the Yezidi women fighting back after genocide

Seven years ago, the world watched in horror as ISIS attacked Sinjar. The women of the YJŞ have been fighting for justice ever since.

mjbodette.medium.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Civil activists of the #Tishreen movement are gathering in Baghdad's #Nisour Square now, in the shadow of the city's tower, expressing their frustrations re the ongoing political crisis. Peaceful, lots of security, chanting of "we are the young who will build the country." #Iraq

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

10 months

Thanks to @antonioguterres et al. for being awarded the silver Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for reporting on the @UN @UNHCRIraq humanitarian transition in #Iraq (& the issues this raises of state responsibility v international obligations): #UNCAwards

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

In 2015, 85+ people were killed by a Dutch airstrike in Hawija. The Dutch MOD agreed to pay a "voluntary contribution" of $4.4 mill - $1.7 mill to @undpiniraq & $3.6 mill to @IOMIraq - which survivors say they've seen little of. By @PMagid & @HawreKhalid2 :

How a Rare Effort to Compensate Iraqi Airstrike Victims Failed

Seven years after a U.S.-planned airstrike on Hawija killed at least 85 civilians, a token of compensation has delivered little or no help to survivors.

theintercept.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Today marks the 1 year since the #Yazidi Survivors Law was passed by the Iraqi Parliament. This weekend in Khanke, Iraqi Kurdistan, I met many women + children who had absolutely NO idea how to access support nor that it was even available. Serious issues in its implementation.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Also in #Erbil today... beautiful colours and charming designs at the Citadel’s Kurdish Textile Museum 🧶🧵 Great café. #proxywar #culture

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Yazidis today celebrate their religious festival, the Îda Êzî. I was really glad to visit the #Yazidi religious site of Lalish this week, in Duhok Governorate's mountain valleys. Approx 2,500 #Yazidi women + children remain unaccounted for following ISIS' enslavement in 2014. 🕯️

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

From the top of the Kurdistan Region’s highest mountain – Halgurd – you can also see Iran & Turkey. Quite the climb….!! A stunning place to hike. So lucky to have walked/slid it in such great company. 🌞 ⚠️ Not for the fainthearted ⚠️

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Beautiful #Kurdistan - excited to be on a small part of the new Zagros Mountain Trail ⛰ 250km from Al Qosh to Choman, and some great guides stationed along the way... major creds to Leon + Laween behind the project 👏

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Here is my piece on the struggles facing one family: Khansa - grandmother - living alone with 4 of her grandchildren: all held by ISIS for varying lengths. Barely a week before I met them, her eldest - Roza, 18 - had returned from Syria after almost 8 yrs.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

#NewProfilePic ... from a happy moment in the Kurdistan mountains last year. 📸: @meethak55

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

At today's @Free_Yezidi @SinjarAcademy event in Khanke, family members + officials mourned the lives destroyed by the #Yazidi genocide, eight years ago. Down the hill ≈20,000 survivors live in sweltering tents, still; just one camp housing the hundreds of thousands of displaced.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

“Iraq is facing three perfect storms in the next decade,” says @AzzamAlwash . “Yet decision makers are not even aware of the abyss facing us, let alone thinking about solutions and the time needed to implement them.” Quick piece on #Iraq for @AJEnglish 👇

Extreme heat hits Iraq, as temperatures exceed 50 degrees Celsius

Higher temperatures combine with Iraq’s other problems to create a ‘perfect storm’.

www.aljazeera.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

While thousands still remain in makeshift displacement camps in Anbar, the biggest threat many Iraqis now face is the environment, and specifically the distribution of water in rural areas. Here is our report for @AJEnglish , from Ramadi's Habbaniyah Lake:

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

A senior adviser at the Iraqi water resources ministry warned on Thursday that the country’s water reserves have decreased by 50% since last year, due to drought + declining river levels. Water pollution is also a high concern for officials. #Iraq #climate

Iraq's water reserves 'down 50 percent': official

Rudaw is a broadcast and digital news network based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, publishing in English, Kurdish, Arabic, and Turkish.

www.rudaw.net

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Arrived, to the 2nd largest city in the country, home of legendary Sinbad the Sailor, and the principal port of Iraq (main port not in city centre), situated on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab, where the Tigris + Euphrates meet... the temperature is expected to peak today at 47°C.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Gas flaring in #Iraq is causing a deadly public health crisis. Ali Hussein Jaloud, 21, grew up next to Basra's Rumaila oilfield: one of @bp_plc ’s largest sites. He died on Friday from leukaemia, linked to the flaring which releases carcinogens. @Jeky_Kelly

Ali died days before he could challenge BP’s CEO on the dangers of gas flaring. Don’t let his death...

The 21-year-old Iraqi, who lived by a smoke-choked oilfield, died of cancer. His message must be heard, says journalist Jess Kelly

www.theguardian.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Plenty of articles coming out to mark the stupidity/success/legacy of the Iraq war [delete as ideologically applicable], but this is a respectful, curious, and reflective travel piece by Sophy Roberts @FT on the beauty of the country, and its people. #Iraq

Iraq, 20 years on

On the anniversary of the US-led invasion, tour operators are returning to the country and — despite official warnings — their trips are selling out

www.ft.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

A snapshot of the cost of war in Iraq - not seeking to answer whether the 2003 invasion was “worth it” as the anniversary so often absurdly get reduced to - but looking at how it shaped the lives of six ordinary young people. With @meethak55 for @AJEnglish

Iraqis born in 2003 reflect on a life that began with war

They want a better life, they want to leave, they want peace. Young Iraqis on how the 2003 Iraq war shaped their lives.

www.aljazeera.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Reflections on the Beauty and Rage of Building a Life in Iraq

With Furious Love

Reflections on the beauty and rage of building a life in Iraq

www.ethelmagazine.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Bright colours in Mosul's old city, last week.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

With the wonderful, kind & knowledgeable @yasameen_al ❤️ at @MERI_info #MERIforum ... Which you can watch online: (Just be alert to false narratives from certain speakers in the previous panel).

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Waterwheels in Hit, Anbar, on the Euphrates. 🎡❤️

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Such incredible history. 😍 On the bank of the Tigris near #Baghdad 's Shuhada Bridge, the al-Mustansiriya Madrasah was completed in *1234 CE*, marking a new stage in the development of higher education in the Islamic World. It was named after the Caliph al-Mustansir Billah. #Iraq

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

“I wish this could continue all summer,” Haider said, looking up at the air conditioning that Iraq’s parliamentarians enjoy around-the-clock, and laughed. “I’ve never slept under such cold in all my life.” Fantastic, revealing quote... #Iraq

Iraq crisis simmers as protesters shut parliament down

Ten months after cleric Moqtada al-Sadr won at the ballot box, Iraq’s politicians are still bitterly divided over a new government.

www.washingtonpost.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

A few images from #Baghdad last week. Especially glad to have spent a morning in the freshly reopened Iraq Museum, and wonder if the items currently in the @britishmuseum and Berlin's (glorious) Pergamon — for now, replaced with replicas — will one day make it there too... ☀️

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

For anyone interested, here's a v short write-up of 13 books (non-fiction & fiction) that have really helped me settle into Erbil and improve my understanding of the Middle East over recent months, spanning #Iraq , #Iran , the #Kurdistan Region and... the UK

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Most young Iraqis I speak to are entirely unconvinced that their best interests are being served by those in power - they want to demand more from their governments, but the jury is out on how, and if. #Iraq

Young Iraqi activists despair as political crisis continues

Clashes brought rival armed factions to the streets of Baghdad, leaving Iraq’s young activists stuck in the middle.

www.aljazeera.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

"No one can celebrate being a refugee. As much as we are strong and have survived the worst, we do not celebrate being refugees." On #WorldRefugeeDay , this conversation in the @newhumanitarian might make you pause.

Q&A: What does World Refugee Day mean to refugees?

Recognition, but little power and few solutions: We asked refugees what a global day for people forced to flee means to them.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Scenes from a glorious swim in #Kurdistan 's Barzan area today. Beneath the beauty, however, issues are clearly mounting for the Kurdistan Region + its people. This piece by @Darcmaou for @FRANCE24 sums up the situation well, with insight from @AdelBakawan :

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

5 years

Hello @NickFerrariLBC ... can you see this government delivering the brave & far-reaching changes we need to make to even deliver net zero by 2050? Will you #actnow to protect @LBC listeners from the #climateandecologicalcrisis ? We’d love to hear your thoughts. #EnoughisEnough

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

There are thousands of falsely accused young men in prisons in #Iraq , many of whom had confessions extracted under torture; others accused of ISIS affiliation to settle personal scores & serving sentences on behalf of others. This proposal will bring them & their families justice

NewsAlerts Global

@NewsAlertsG

1 year

Concerns Grow Over Iraqi Parliament's Controversial Amnesty Proposal for Former #ISIS Members in Prisons. Survivors and Victims Speak Out, Urging Global Support to Prevent Potential ISIS Resurgence. #Iraq #عراق #Irak

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

4 months

Happy to add to this thread my @LSEMiddleEast @Peace_Rep_ paper on the @UN 's humanitarian transition in #Iraq - out today! Many thanks to all I've spoken with over the past two years, particularly the phenonemol Kristin Perry, @SEEDKurdistan 🧡 Read here:

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Brutal images from #Iraq 's Hawizeh marshes by @susanschulman23 , and a snapshot into ordinary life. Climate change is also debilitating and exhausting. These are the people dealing with the exacerbated effects in southern Iraq.

‘It used to be like heaven’: the Iraq wetlands decimated by the climate crisis – in pictures

The people of the Hawizeh marshes of southern Iraq have an ancient history living in the world’s most unique and biodiverse wetlands. The region has been reduced to near-desert as a result of the...

www.theguardian.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Fawziya was 11 when the sound of gunfire startled her awake on August 3, 2014; the day nine years ago today that ISIS launched a genocidal campaign against her Yazidi community in the Sinjar region. Fawziya, her mother & siblings have been displaced since.

Nine years after the Yazidi genocide, what’s next for survivors?

The implementation of a transitional justice framework in Iraq could address atrocities committed by ISIL.

www.aljazeera.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

"Father Olivier told me he had at one stage questioned the point of rebuilding the church. West Mosul was a wasteland for years after Isis’s defeat, and now only 50 Christian families are there. Even now, mine-clearance teams find bodies." @OPoquillon ⛪🕰️

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Beautiful, personal piece here by @RyanManya5 on life as a young Marsh Arab from #Iraq 's southernmost wetland — floodplains now threatened by a lethal combination of drought & rising, saltier sea water. Most Marsh Arabs have moved to safer climes and opps.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

The Kurdistan Region is not always the easiest place to live, but there is solace to be found in its gorgeous mountains. Before heading to London this summer, I was SO thrilled to be invited along to the final leg of the new 220km @ZagrosTrail thru-hike...

Success of Kurdistan Region's long-distance Zagros Mountain Trail lies with local communities

Rudaw is a broadcast and digital news network based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, publishing in English, Kurdish, Arabic, and Turkish.

www.rudaw.net

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

A beautiful, challenging, and unexpectedly happy eight months. Back soon! 🫂

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

I will be on @bbcworldservice in a little while, to discuss the ongoing impasse in #Iraq and the technical committee set up to look at a roadmap to early elections... and if that is possible

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

11 months

Happy to share I am the Silver winner of the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize, named after the @BostonGlobe UN bureau chief who died in Baghdad in 2003. I'll be in New York next month for the Awards Ceremony! 🏆 Thanks very much to the UN Correspondents Association ❤️ @UNCANews

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 months

#NewProfilePic 🤗

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@AlannahTravers

2 years

#Baghdad 's gorgeous Martyr's Monument, away from the chaos of the city's green zone. Supporters / blind followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are continuing their camp-out in #Iraq 's parliament, frustrating the democratic process of forming a needed government.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

A few shots from along #Basra 's Corniche promenade, running along the Shatt Al Arab, last Tuesday morning...

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

On the right-hand wall of this image, taken by @Abdxeyad , are photographs of the four sons & grandson that Haj Mohammed al-Khashali, behind his counter in Shabandar coffee shop, has outlived. They were killed in 2007, when a car bomb tore through Baghdad's Mutanabbi Street. #Iraq

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Very much enjoying this, by @ESLoudon 📖 Five chapters in!

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

✨ Remarkable trip to the ancient site of #Hatra , capital of the first Arab Kingdom, and to learn more about Iraq's history. Founded around 200BC, Hatra was a flourishing trading city located between the Roman & Parthian empires (and more recently, a site ISIS failed to destroy).

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

@paul_winginit Good screenshotting - this is shameless

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Incredibly researched, devastating findings by @DahrJamail (p 2013) into the deadly long-term impact of two US-led wars in #Iraq – and the hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic waste causing cancer, miscarriages, & birth defects.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

11 months today since Iraqis went to the polls. Still no clear sign to a government and early elections look like they could be the only way out of the impasse. #Iraq

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Many are asking what Qurayshi’s death might mean for #ISIS . Another Q is what more can (& should) be done to support the persecuted #Yazidi community, still suffering from the chilling implications of the group’s campaign of horror. @Free_Yezidi , @Ezidi2

Yazidis welcome death of 'driving force' behind ISIS genocide, call for greater support

Rudaw is a broadcast and digital news network based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, publishing in English, Kurdish, Arabic, and Turkish.

www.rudaw.net

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

A little bit of tranquility on the Tigris 🛥️ (Took a detour with the most wonderful taxi driver, Majed)

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Harrowing image from 2003 in this overview by @GDecamme @AFP (British Challenger tank in background, Basra street). "By the time the US withdrew under Barack Obama in 2011, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed, says the @iraqbodycount group."

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Demonstrators gathering at #Baghdad 's Tahrir Square this morning, and hundreds more on Jumariyah bridge, as they mark the third anniversary of the October 2019 protests. Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr also in crowds. #Iraq – at Tahrir Square (ساحة التحرير)

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

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Iraq's PM in today's @faznet 📰 He's visiting Germany, and writes here about building closer ties, learning & improving ways to tackle corruption in #Iraq , strengthening trade relations + the important role that Germany has played in prosecuting ISIS members & pursuing justice.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

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“That Iraq has not collapsed is thanks largely to the country’s immense oil wealth. But most citizens never see the benefit of that wealth, suffering through daily electricity cuts, decrepit schools and a lack of health care...” @janearraf & @e_garthwaite :

With Government Paralyzed and Militias Fighting, Iraq’s Instability Deepens (Published 2022)

Politicians have failed to form a new government nearly a year after the last elections. Baghdad just saw its worst militia clashes in years. And despite vast oil wealth, the state can’t provide...

www.nytimes.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Wonderful to have my amazing mother visit over the Easter weekend, to see the Kurdistan Region through her eyes, and to introduce her to the people and places I love... 🐣 Some images here from Sulav, Amedi, & Gali Sherana. More pics (soon):

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

5 months

Second 🥈 Prize at the @fjawards ! @StellaMartany 😍 @Journo_TomBrown @last_christina @kuangkeng

alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

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If we win this, I can pay for my Master's 🤣🤞🏼 Hopefully the piece also raised some awareness of gas flaring in Kurdistan #Iraq ... 🔥

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@AlannahTravers

3 years

Very grateful to Muhsen, Hammad + @saeedyazidkhani for sharing their thoughts and agreeing to be quoted. Thanks to @GinaAVale for wisdom, and @houriwalid for brutal edits -

Seven years in camps: Life for the abandoned victims of IS

Many thousands of displaced Yazidi survivors are still living in unbearable conditions in Iraq, with no foreseeable way out

www.opendemocracy.net

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Clearing my desktop & reminded of these seriously good reports on all things #protest #climate #militias , starting with this frankly terrifying @Oxfam @WorldVision @save_children study on impact of climate breakdown in #Iraq , esp on agricultural community:

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

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Tens of thousands of individuals are imprisoned in #Iraq , convicted of terrorist-related offences in the post-ISIS period in trials where fair trial guarantees were not observed—often actively, because of extortion, false allegations, cruelty + corruption.

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@AlannahTravers

2 years

“One of the strikes hit a civilian area, close to an elementary school. Footage circulating on social media showed children screaming and running for shelter behind rocky outcroppings,” @Mustafa_salimb writes. #Kurdistan #Iraq 💔

As protests rage on, Iran carries out strikes against Kurds in Iraq

The missile and drone strikes killed at least nine people and wounded more than 30, including civilians and children, according to Iraqi authorities.

www.washingtonpost.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Fantastic series by @CeriThomas01 on the historic – and not-so-historic – decisions by British and Iranian governments that have shaped the life of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. @FreeNazanin

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@AlannahTravers

1 year

Friends in #Erbil , Meethak Al-Khatib's wonderful exhibition opens on Saturday at 7pm! 📸 Location: Framing Photojournalism School, Citadel - The Helan Art Exhibition is organised by @goetheinstitut Irak in cooperation with @SchoolFraming and Sêv Gallery.

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1 year

Such an important and insightful piece by @glumphish , as #Iraq 's humanitarian transition continues. Reflections and advice, and well worth a read for anyone interested in post-conflict development and /or covering Iraq: #hpn_hpg

Navigating humanitarian principles in the nexus: reflections from Iraq | Humanitarian Practice...

Almost a decade after it began, United Nations (UN) stewardship of humanitarian aid is ending in Iraq, with coordination moving to area-based approaches co-led by the government. While the transition...

odihpn.org

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@AlannahTravers

1 year

#Habbaniyah lake, Anbar ☀️❤️

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World Report 2023: Iraq | Human Rights Watch

World Report 2023: Rights Trends in Iraq

www.hrw.org

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@AlannahTravers

2 years

Catching up with this great episode on recent events in #Iraq , with @MarsinRA @RashaAlAqeedi @bbctanyabeckett @LahibHigel & Rend al-Rahim. Highly recommend if you have 20 mins to spare, and are curious about the current situation - & how it came to this...

BBC World Service - The Inquiry, How close did Iraq come to civil war?

Political tensions in Iraq have led to violence – but how close did it come to civil war?

www.bbc.co.uk

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@AlannahTravers

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As the UN scales back its emergency #humanitarian funding in #Iraq , there are questions over whether regional and federal authorities will be able to support those in need — with KRG officials openly saying they are unable to plug the emerging funding gap.

Taking stock of the UN’s shift away from emergency aid in Iraq

Twenty years on from the US-led invasion, can the Iraqi authorities step up and assume more responsibility?

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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1 year

Mar Thoma Syriac-Catholic Church in Mosul's old city, officially opened a few weeks ago. Next service on Friday 26th ⛪ #Iraq

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@AlannahTravers

6 months

If we win this, I can pay for my Master's 🤣🤞🏼 Hopefully the piece also raised some awareness of gas flaring in Kurdistan #Iraq ... 🔥

Fetisov Journalism Awards

@fjawards

8 months

💫 #Shortlisted stories for the 2023 #FetisovJournalismAwards : Category: Excellence in Environmental Journalism Title: Choking Kurdistan Authors: @Journo_TomBrown , @last_christina , Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, @AlannahTravers , @StellaMartany Find out more👉

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This is an incredibly insightful series of essays on the last twenty years of #Iraq ("what went wrong, what could have been done differently, and how to correct the current trajectory," @renadmansour writes), also featuring reflections from @belkiswille ...

Iraq 20 years on: Insider reflections on the war and its aftermath

This essay collection explores two decades of state-building in Iraq and the lessons to be learned.

www.chathamhouse.org

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@AlannahTravers

3 years

For many in Iraq, what is promised + delivered falls short. Last year the #Yazidi Survivors Law was passed to support survivors of ISIS languishing in dire conditions; due to political chaos in Baghdad, the federal budget has been kicked down the road + there is still no funding.

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@AlannahTravers

2 years

Looking up, earlier today, from the Altar of the Chair, St. Peter's Basilica ⛪❤️

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@AlannahTravers

3 years

Ahead of two major climate summits in Egypt and the UAE, this @AMEJA panel promises to discuss covering climate, energy + the environment in the Middle East. Moderated by @JenHijaz , a week today. With @GebeilyM , @AtyyatFarah , @GhadaaSharif + @ABarnardNYT

AMEJA Presents: Covering Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa

AMEJA panel discussion on best practices in MENA climate change coverage

www.eventbrite.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

@MartinSLewis @bbc5live I'm finally beginning to miss London a bit, but quality of life in Berlin is better. Once you figure out German bureaucracy + tax systems, the lower living costs & higher public services are worth it. I think the main thing is that you can actually afford to earn less/ have time.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

A beautiful spot for football, between Shush and Khirdas Village (nearish Akre, in the Kurdistan Region) via @ZagrosTrail , yesterday. ☀️⚽⛰️

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Five years on from the declaration of victory over ISIS in Mosul, life remains a struggle for so many in the city. Important report by @WNlucile + @meethak55 on the slow pace of reconstruction, and great explainer by @YasmineMosimann for @France24_en here:

Iraq: Mosul's long road to recovery, five years after IS group's defeat

On July 10, 2017, Iraq's second-largest city was wrested back from the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group after two years under its rule of terror. But the devastating battle left much of the city…

www.france24.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Latest from #Iraq on the closure of Jeddah 5, reported earlier this summer w @meethak55 + Ahmed al-Salem. In a chaotic eviction lacking transparent communication, cooperation & coordination, it's a remarkable feat that Umm Ali's family has returned at all.

In Iraq, a rushed camp closure fuels unease over the safety of IS returns

Four months after hundreds of families were forced out of Jeddah 5, many have not been able to go home or find permanent shelter.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Cancer claims another young activist in #Iraq , Diako Saman, who worked with @WaterkeepersIQ in Sulaimania to clean the Kurdistan Region's rivers of pollution and factory waste. I had the pleasure to know him. Rest in peace. ❤️

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

3 years

Next time I am coming back with bread...!! @SangarKhaleel @YasmineMosimann 😊

Ali Al-Baroodi علي البارودي

@AliBaroodi

3 years

Simplest things may give the biggest joys.

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

#NewProfilePic (Earlier today, I love the bright colours!)

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

#Iraq

2 killed in protest over Iraqi activist's prison sentence

BAGHDAD (AP) — At least two protesters were killed Wednesday in southern Iraq after security forces opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against a harsh prison sentence handed down against a young...

apnews.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Education Ministry spokes tells us the department needs a 20% share of the new budget (rather than last yr's 3%). 12 million students & growing as population expands. Says they need around 10,000 new schools to cope with demand, solve the double-shift system + overcrowding. #Iraq

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

🗣️ In the 1st episode of Confused Iraqi (Season 2!), @noormusah + I speak with Iraqi journalist & filmmaker @meethak55 . Meethak was born in Ramadi, and grew up in a city fraught with conflict. He moved to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in 2014. 🎙:

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Iraq's new Central Bank, from a Baghdad top-floor. 🏨

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

My latest report for @trtworld - filmed last week. #Iraq

TRT World

@trtworld

2 years

Mismanagement, underfunding and corruption have left Iraq’s education system in tatters. And a growing number of private schools are now widening the rift between children

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Felt in Erbil just now ... a few aftershocks

Global Earthquake Alerts

@Global_EQ

2 years

A 7.8 magnitude #earthquake occured at 23 km E of Nurdağı, Turkey. See the full report at:

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

🧠 Important @TheLancet piece on the state of mental health & limited mental support in #Iraq * 1/4 of Iraqis have mental illnesses * There are approx 0.34 psychiatrists for every 100,000 people in Iraq * Only six specialized psychiatric hospitals in Iraq

Iraq's mental health crisis: a way forward?

For the past 20 years, mental health in Iraq has been a difficult issue to address as the country has faced wars, conflicts, and political instability.1 Moreover, Iraq has faced huge hurdles that...

www.thelancet.com

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

"Mostly Iraqis feel as though they're on their own in a heat wave," @CathrinSchaer writes. "Iraqis will try to solve these problems themselves because they don't have much faith that the government will help them," @khuloodalamiry explains to her. #Iraq 🥵

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 years

Nearly five years on from the military operations to drive out ISIS, 2/3s of Sinjar’s population (>193,000 Yazidis, Arabs +Kurds) remain displaced, a new @NRC_MiddleEast report says. *99%* of those who applied for govt compensation have not received anything for damaged property.

NRC Middle East & North Africa

@NRC_MiddleEast

2 years

Access to housing is a key component in the decision to return to Sinjar: - 64% of IDPs from Sinjar said their 🏘️ are heavily damaged - 70% say housing shortages are the main source of social tension - 32% state that security concerns are stopping them from returning

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

2 months

"Wir reden von einer Traumabearbeitung: Wir befähigen sie, mit dem Erlebten umgehen zu können." 🖤 Zehn Jahre nach dem Genozid in #Sinjar spricht @SalahBerzinci @JiyanFoundation über Therapieangebote and legal recognition by #Iraqi + #Kurdish governments.

Genozid an den Jesid*innen: „Leben wieder in die Hand nehmen“

Zehn Jahre sind seit dem Genozid an den Jesid*innen im Irak vergangen, doch die Traumata bleiben. Psychologe Salah Ahmad hilft, mit dem Erlebten umzugehen.

taz.de

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alannah travers

@AlannahTravers

1 year

Lack of employment regulations in #Iraq and the Kurdistan Region mean humiliation & exploitation is rife. Mumen’s situation isn’t even close to some of the worse examples of abuse, e.g. for Syrian refugees or Iraqi IDPs, with fewer rights and greater need.