Ayub Nuri is an Iraqi journalist. He was Baghdad correspondent for London-based Global Radio News, covering the Iraq war in 2003, and the subsequent insurgency and sectarian violence. He has reported from Iraq for Public Radio International in Boston and BBC World Service. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on www.iwpr.net and the Kurdish website www.Kurdishmedia.com. He was awarded the prize of the year by the Foreign Press Association in New York in 2007.

Recent articles

An Iraqi Kurd who welcomed the US war in his country sees arrogance and force crushing chances for freedom. His view: American occupation policy is dangerously misjudged.

Iraqi Kurds have struggled for self-determination for eighty years. Iraq can have no peace – and the United States may lose an ally in the Middle East – if their rights are again denied, argues a Kurd who originally supported the US-led of Iraq invasion in 2003.

In April 2003, Ayub Nuri embraced the change in Iraq with cautious hope. In July, he took the measure of a complex transition. Now, he reports on a time of bitterness and disillusion with the American occupiers.

The arrest of Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of the old Iraqi regime’s most feared and hated figures, is an opportunity for his Kurdish victims to find belated justice.

A few months ago in northern Iraq, Ayub Nuri was barely surviving. Now he is engaged as a fixer/translator for the BBC in Baghdad, and has bought a state-of-the-art laptop plus satellite phone. Through the internet he can communicate with the whole world. In this vivid kaleidoscope of current public opinion in Iraq, he foresees difficult times. But intelligent guys seem to be thriving already.