Judit Neurink

Judit Neurink is a journalist and author of a number of books on the Middle East. She lives and works in Kurdistan, Iraq, where she established a training center for journalists, the Independent Media Center Kurdistan (IMCK).

KURDISH FEMALE fighters of the Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ) take part in a military parade as they celebrate victory over the Islamic state, in Qamishli

Fleeing Syrian Kurds must fear the long arm of Erdogan

Syrian Kurds are fleeing in their thousands to neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan. But even there, they will not be safe for the long arm of the Turkish president Erdogan.

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

AWARD-WINNING photographer Eddy van Wessel captured Mosul’s Jewish quarter: Hebrew inscriptions on the wall, near the Great Mosque of al-Nuri. (Eddy van Wessel)

After ISIS, Mosul finally values its Jewish heritage

Since ISIS attacked the diversity of the Iraqi community, diversity is now valued far more consciously, and this trend’s most surprising consequence is related to the Iraqi Jews.

MARCH 1, 2019