We caught up with Narcy to talk briefly about his latest masterpiece, SpaceTime – a record with a sound too big for planet Earth. Read more…
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Yousif vs The World
For most football fans, the game starts and stops on TV. Their favorite players parade on the screen like demagogues holding the fate of an entire nation. For Yousif, being a spectator wasn’t enough. Read more about he took matters into his own hands. Read more…
Strings of Memories
Read about why Dima collects photos of family members she’s never met in her life, of places that no longer exist and of memories that seem like an old black-and-white movie. Read more…
Women & Gender in Iraq
An excerpt from an important book about the history of women in Iraq with an introduction by the author describing how, where, when and why she wrote it. Read more…
Accessibility from Mosul to London and beyond
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, shakomakoNET sits down with Iraqi journalist and activist Raya Al Jadir to talk about the importance of accessibility. Read more…
Everything is Fine in Iraq
Fifteen years have passed since America’s occupation of Iraq. Iraqis continue to persevere, but this sense of survival exists in spite of living conditions in Iraq, not because of them. Find out what has and has not changed since then. Read more…
In Between Two Rivers
Riezan tells the story of how she helped create Two Rivers, a collective working to forge connections to Iraq by way of Glasgow. Read more…
Baghdad Bikers
A lack of public space and opportunities for young people to just have fun in Baghdad means that these bikers have to take matters in their own hands. Take a look. This is a shakomakoTV production shot, filmed and edited with love by Sajjad Abbas in Baghdad. Read more…
El Bnaya
Meet Baraa, a young woman breaking boundaries with books, breathing life into a broken city. Read more…
To Ali Wadi
For Iraqis that have grown up during the many attempts to destroy Iraq, they either died at home, or perished on the open seas. Either way, their stories tell a tale of a nation in pieces. Read more…
Fleeing Iraq
Najwa fled Mosul after ISIS murdered her husband in front of their three children. Now the single mother is trying to reach Germany to get urgent medical care for two of her children with disabilities. Read more…
Baghdad Parkour
From the streets of Baghdad, take a look at this growing acrobatic culture in a city that refuses to die. Read more…