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Hannah Lucinda Smith, Author at ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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Dancing in Kirkuk

Dancing in Kirkuk

On a baking hot Monday afternoon just before the start of Ramadan, a group of teenagers filed into a dilapidated sports hall in Kirkuk. There was no air-conditioning and no watercooler, and the sweat dripped down their faces as they started to dance. But they beamed...
A City Almost United as Iraq Divides

A City Almost United as Iraq Divides

Kirkuk, Asharq Al-Awsat—With its crumbling ruins and ghostly relics of communities that have long since disappeared, Kirkuk’s ancient citadel tells the story of what may happen to Iraq in the near future as deftly as it illustrates the city’s past. We passed through...