An actor in the role of the Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohamed, enacts a scene from a play titled "The Resurrection of the Earth" produced by the Hashed al-Shaabi, Dec. 29, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A medic checks an elderly man's temperature as he arrives to receive the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation centre in Erbil, August 7, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Dlovan Mohammad, the head of Erbil Health Directorate (right) signing a memorandum of understanding with Esther van der Woerdt, head of MSF's Mission in Iraq, Jan. 4, 2022. (Photo: MSF)
A medic analyses samples from COVID-19 patients at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region’s northern city of Duhok, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
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)
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