Country: Iraq

Participatory methodology is key to make visible the invisible survivors and victims of violence based on religion or belief. Here is why, writes CREID Director,…

Examining countries where religious pluralism is in decline, including Iraq, India, Pakistan and Nigeria, this book brings together reflections, knowledge and learning about the daily…

This paper by Varteen Hanna Shaba aims to explore how to define and classify idioms, and suggests specific strategies and procedures to translate idioms from…

This paper by Zubeida S. Abdulkhaliq aims to explore the relationship between Kakai beliefs and music (tanburo), and how the tanbur (a sacred lute) is…

This paper by Mahir Hussein Ali aims to explore how translation can be utilised as an effective tool for the preservation, survival, and dissemination of…

This paper by Maha Ibrahim Jasim deals with the linguistic heritage of the Maṣlāwī dialect in Iraq spoken by the diverse communities in the city…

A joint CREID / APPG FoRB event chaired by Fiona Bruce, UK Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief , featuring lessons and highlights…

This CREID Working Paper by Jeremy Barker explores how religious diversity dynamics shaped humanitarian assistance efforts in the context of large-scale displacement due to conflict…

In this Working Paper, Shivan Shlaymoon Toma investigates the ways in which Syriac native speakers from Iraq conceptualise their understandings of various abstract domains, feelings,…

The Working Paper by Dr Saeed Adris Saeed and Wafaa Sabah Khuder provides a linguistic, a historical, as well as a socio-cultural record of the…

Irvin Ibrahim Solman speaks to Raad Eido Rehan, an Iraqi Yazidi, who shares painful memories about his tattoos. Men and women from religious minorities have…

In this heritage case study, Nidaa Khalil Aswad interviewed and photographed, her grandmother Nemsha Shlo Smo. Nemsha was born in 1938 and has lived in…