A Quicksand Feeling: How Iraq Has Been Roiled By The Israel-US War on Iran

A Quicksand Feeling: How Iraq has been Roiled by the Israel-US War on Iran

Tulsa, OK (Special to Informed Comment) – I taught at an international school in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq from 2011 to 2013. I returned to the Kurdish region to teach at a university in Sulaimaniyah from 2015 to 2021. I traveled to Baghdad several times to speak at conferences, train teachers for Iraq’s Ministry of Higher Education, and recruit students. Watching war in a country you used to call home from a county you now call home is a quicksand…