Soon after the withdrawal of most of the US military from Iraq, bequeathing a weak and corrupt clientele government in Baghdad, ISIS took over several Iraqi small towns before occupying Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city in June 2014. The Iraqi army was already suffering from a lack of pro..
Dima Yassine
Dima Yassine's work and writing tackles the importance of the role art and gender activism is playing in the political and social change in the Middle East.
She holds a Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies form Simon Fraser University in Canada. She writes poetry in her spare time. She published book of poetry in Arabic titled: Shajarat al Narinj/The Narinj Tree