Jo Wilding first visited Iraq in August 2001, and stayed in Baghdad in February-March 2003, in the month before the war and the first twelve days of bombing. Her articles appear in ElectronicIraq, ProgressiveTrail.org and her own website, Wildfire. She is now working with Circus2Iraq, performing and running workshops for Iraqi children.

Recent articles

Jo Wilding returns to the besieged Iraqi city with aid supplies, is kidnapped by insurgents, and lives to tell the urgent, compelling story.

A brave and harrowing report from inside the besieged city of Fallujah where ordinary people are trapped in the cross-fire.

Amidst poverty and insecurity, Iraq’s performers, artists and writers are building spaces of learning and laughter for their country’s street children. Jo Wilding is both participant and privileged witness to the birth of an Iraqi civil society.