Irak · Unabhängig, progressiv
Five people of different ages and backgrounds take us through their working days in Jummar’s newsroom. Writing, designing and publishing, and answering their families’ question, ‘What do you do?’ For older relatives, a job done from home, on a computer, can be difficult to understand.
Across Canada, the Gulf and hip-hop, Yassin al-Salman knew what it meant to be a visitor. Music gave him somewhere to speak, carrying Iraq into rooms where its people were too often spoken for.
One woman went into labour while harvesting crops. Another gave birth on a tractor, halfway through a three-hour journey to hospital. A third nearly died after an unlicensed midwife injected her three times to induce labour.