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Podcast: Middle East Dossier
Episode: [MEI Salon Series] Stories of Hope from Iraq
Description: 30 Oct 2020, 3.30pm to 5pm (SGT)
Speaker: Charlene Winfred, Photographer, Singapore
What comes to mind when you think of Iraq? Deserts? Bombs? Soldiers? Destruction? Over the last 50 years, Iraq has seen multiple wars ― the Iran–Iraq war, the first Gulf war, the US invasion, the war with the Islamic State ― and the devastation that comes with prolonged conflict. Millions of lives were lost, and millions were displaced. What does ordinary life look like when you’re a refugee?
Ms Winfred spent a year in Kurdistan, the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, working for a small NGO he...