Mina Al-Droubi is a researcher and contributor to <em>The Majalla</em>. Mina, an Iraqi–British journalist, graduated in International Politics from City University and received her master’s degree in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Past meets Present in Egypt

[caption id="attachment_55248216" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jamal Suliman as Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egyptian documentary drama series Sadik Al…

Standing Up for Iraq’s Turkmen

[caption id="attachment_55249794" align="alignnone" width="616"] Iraqi Turkmen Front leader Arshad Al-Salihi shows his ink-stained finger after…

Marrying Off Girls

[caption id="attachment_55249446" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi schoolgirls return home in Baghdad on February 28, 2012. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP…

Heritage in the Right Hands

[caption id="attachment_55249169" align="alignnone" width="594"] Detail of a students' school records as conservation of a trove of Iraqi Jewish…

The Ghost of Saddam

[caption id="attachment_55248725" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jamal PenjwenyPhotograph from the series Saddam is Here, 2009-2010. ©Jamal Penjweny,…

Stuck in the Middle

[caption id="attachment_55239097" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi worker adjusts a control valve at the Daura oil refinery on November 5,…

A Taste of Iraq in London

[caption id="attachment_55246254" align="alignnone" width="620"] Dr Lamees Ibrahaim at her home in Barnes on January 30, 2010. (Ben Stansall/ Lamees…

A Question of Freedom

[caption id="attachment_55245548" align="alignnone" width="620"] Khaled Takreti"Chaos," 2013, Acrylic on Canvas(Courtesy of the artist and Ayyam…

My Grandfather, the Baghdadi Artist

[caption id="attachment_55244779" align="alignnone" width="620"] Hafed Al-Droubi in his studio in Baghdad in 1952. (Courtesy of Mina Al-Droubi)[…

Heading in the Right Direction?

[caption id="attachment_55243346" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki (L) and Kurdish regional president Massoud…