What every driver must know / Alise Alousi -- Bifurcations of Iraq's visual culture / Nada Shabout -- A barbarian in Rome: excerpts from a diary / Sinan Antoon -- Putting contemporary Iraqi art on the map: a conversation with Maysaloun Faraj / Nadje Al-Ali -- The assassination of Iraqi academic life: a personal testimony / Saad N. Jawad -- My own private Munich / Dahlia Petrus -- Hassan Abdulrazzak: a selection / Hassan Abdulrazzak -- Reframing Sunni and Shii discussions / Yara Badday -- Invisible mirror: aggression and the thumb-generation response / Wafaa Bilal -- Iraq: a long phantasmagorical dream for those who are not part of the new capitalism or retired communism / Ali Bader -- Migratory sacred spaces: (re)creating Ashura -- Dena Al-Adeeb -- Liberal mass media (mis)communication and Iraqi (dis)connections / Celia Shallal -- Sophisticated ways: destruction of an ancient city / Nadje Al-Ali -- My trips to the unknown / Maki Al Nazzal -- A tale of two exiles / Sama Alshaibi -- 1001 nights / Jananne Al-Ani -- Arab-Jews, diasporas, and multicultural feminism: a conversation with Ella Habiba Shohat / Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany -- A film-training project for young Iraqis / Maysoon Pachachi -- Lyrical resistance: the example of Saadi Youssef / Ferial J. Ghazoul -- Larsa / Dunya Mikhail -- Ur's echo: cosmopolitans and radical loss / Rashad Salim -- Identity of the numbers / Irada Al-Jabbouri.