BAGHDAD — For much of Iraq’s youth, sporting blingy makeup, slicked-up hair and skintight jeans is just part of living the teenage dream. But for their elders, it’s a nightmare. A new ...

Girls belong in school and on the playground, not in a wedding dress.” The draft amendment would legalize, rather than try to reverse, Iraq’s significant and growing child marriage problem ...

As part of its efforts to preserve Assyrian heritage, Jennifer Shahin from ACSYA says the association is keeping alive traditional Assyrian clothing. Most of the world's Assyrians numbering between ...

In early August 2024, thousands of women and women’s rights campaigners took to the streets across Iraq to protest ... divorce and child custody. Within traditional Islamic jurisprudence ...

A community group is collecting traditional ... in northern Iraq then sent to Australia. Each town and village in northern Iraq and northeastern Syria has a distinctive type of clothing and ...