Shiites

Photo Courtesy of Alexis Allison “This weekend, I visit Chamchamal,” I told my Kurdish friend. We leaned over a Scrabble game with a group of my other college-age English learners, stuck to wooden chairs with sweat from the summer Iraq heat. “Texas. You’re going to Texas.” He grinned. “Texas? No. No, no, no. Chamchamal,” I said. Chamchamal is a village in northern Iraq — … [Read more...] about Iraqi Summer Shifts the Narrative