The Brink of Freedom: How Masoud Barzani took Kurdistan to the edge of independence by Davan Yahya Khalil, the 2021 annual Best Indie Book Award (BIBA) Biography winner. (Photo: BIBA website)
A fragment of an artefact bearing cuneiform inscriptions being reconstructed and reassembled at the Mosul Museum, Dec. 14, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
the Arch of Ctesiphon, also known as Taq Kisra (Khosrow's Arch), stands before the conservators' scaffolding at the ancient site of Ctesiphon near moden al-Madain in central Iraq, Nov. 24, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
Hundreds of people carrying fiery torches climb up the Kale mountaintop, located in Akre, a town in Kurdistan Region's Duhok province popularly referred to as the capital of Newroz, the Kurdish New Year. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg)
