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Ramadan

Reviving tradition. Traditional storyteller Abdel Wahed Ismail (2nd L) entertains an audience in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, May 17. (AFP)

Determination to overcome ISIS legacy marks Ramadan in Mosul, scars remain

Iraq

Iraqi men sort out books at the new library of Mosul University in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, April 17. (AFP)

Iraq's academics restock Mosul's barren bookshelves

Mosul

A tragic blow. Iraqi rescue team members are seen at the site where an overloaded ferry sank in the TigrisRiver near Mosul, March 22. (Reuters)

Mosul ferry disaster illustrates Iraq’s wider problems

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Iraqi

A worker cuts the remnants of destruction from the battle of Mosul, at an iron factory in Erbil, Iraq, on February 2. (Reuters)

Iran-backed groups corner Iraq’s postwar scrap metal market

Iraqi

A legacy of ISIS. A woman walks next to damaged shops in the Old City of Mosul. (Reuters)

Chaos and neglect slow Mosul’s recovery

Mosul

Memories of identity. Nawal Fathi, an Iraqi woman who was born and raised in the Old City but fled the fighting and now resides in the city’s western suburbs, prepares tea at her house in Mosul. (AP)

Maslawi Arabic crucial to Mosul’s identity

Iraq

Fireworks erupt in the sky during the 2019 new year celebrations in the Iraqi southern city of Basra. (AFP)

What average Iraqis want for 2019

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Mosul

Broken system. A view of Mosul General Hospital. (Azhar Al-Rubaie)

Mosul residents decry poor medical conditions

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Iraq

Items related of Islamic State militants are seen displayed on the wall of Qantara Culture Cafe in Mosul, Iraq October 26, 2018. (Reuters)

Artists emerge from ruins of Mosul to reclaim Iraqi city's cultural life