Ayub Nuri

Ayub Nuri was Baghdad correspondent for Global Radio News in 2003. He was awarded the prize of the year by the Foreign Press Association in New York in 2007.

Give us hope, not bombs

One year ago the Iraqi people welcomed the US troops into their country. Despite all the hazards of the war, Iraqis could not help coming out of their homes and

By Ayub Nuri

/ 15 Apr 2004

The next betrayal? The Kurds and their friends

Ayub Nuri is an Iraqi Kurd who has written regularly in openDemocracy.net from northern Iraq since 19 March 2003 when he first reported on, and welcomed, the American invasion.

By Ayub Nuri

/ 22 Jan 2004

April to November: an Iraqi journey

Yahia Said and Mary Kaldor have written recently in openDemocracy about their impressions in Iraq during an eight-day visit, and their sense of optimism about the countrys future. As

By Ayub Nuri

/ 20 Nov 2003

Put Chemical Ali on trial in Halabja

In 1991, Kurds living in the north of Iraqi Kurdistan, including the town of Halabja poured onto the streets calling for the snake Chemical Ali to be hanged. In the

By Ayub Nuri

/ 3 Sep 2003

Brief encounters in an anxious land

No future Barzan Ahmed Aziz is an elementary school teacher. He came over to my place, very fed up, to tell me about his feelings on the current situation and

By Ayub Nuri

/ 15 Jul 2003

Wanted in Iraq: a programme of weapons cleansing

Iraq, even before Saddam Hussein, has always been a place for weapons. The whole world came to know how the recently-deposed dictator was using the countrys oil revenue to

By Ayub Nuri

/ 24 Jun 2003

Iraq spring

19 and 20 April The anti-climax of freedom It is well understood by now that a number of different minorities and religions exist side by side in Iraq; all were

By Ayub Nuri

/ 27 Apr 2003

No place for <i>jihad</i> in Kurdistan

3 April 2003 A significant development in northern Iraq in the second week of the war on the Iraqi regime is that Kurdish peshmerga, together with American special forces, have

By Ayub Nuri

/ 6 Apr 2003

The northern Iraqi kaleidoscope

19 March It is true that the Iraqi people, especially the Kurds, have undergone multiple, successive traumas and hardship in their lives. But this is something different. Chamchamal is only

By Ayub Nuri

/ 25 Mar 2003