Schluwa Sama

Schluwa Sama is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. Through a political economy lens, her ethnographic research explores processes of (de-)valuation of agricultural life in Iraqi-Kurdistan.

A country is in the making: report from Baghdad’s occupied Tahrir square

After the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the old system.

By Schluwa Sama and Ansar Jasim

/ 21 Nov 2019

A country is in the making: report from Baghdad’s occupied Tahrir square

The proud neoliberalisation of Iraqi-Kurdistan

Kurdish nationalism in Iraqi-Kurdistan has been transformed from an ideology that strengthened resistance to the Iraqi Baathist dictatorship to a tool now being employed to help build shopping malls.

By Schluwa Sama

/ 21 May 2014

The proud neoliberalisation of Iraqi-Kurdistan

Kurdish nationalism in Iraqi-Kurdistan has been transformed from an ideology that strengthened resistance to the Iraqi Baathist dictatorship to a tool now being employed to help build shopping malls.

By Schluwa Sama

/ 21 May 2014