Young, Worldly and Confident: How Iraq's Middle Class Will Shape the Country's Future

Young, worldly and confident: How Iraq's middle class will shape the country's future

When the next crisis comes, this emerging group will mobilise into national politics in ways that we cannot predict today

The Two Traumas I Carry

There are two traumas that sit on my shoulders at all times. They are very different in nature, but they weigh just as heavily—perhaps the second even more so. The first trauma is familiar, recognizable, almost expected given the life I’ve lived. It is the trauma of what has already happened. In truth, it began even before I was born. I was raised among Holocaust survivors—men and women with numbers burned into their arms, not metaphorically, bu…