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The Iraq Issue 2007

I Want My Dvds
MONSTERS AND MADNESSEven back under Saddam, when we weren’t allowed to have email, you could still find pretty much any Western movie you could ask for (porn excluded)
Iraqi Konfused Kid
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Keep It In The Family
Even after the guards got caught stacking naked prisoners like a hairy, human-rights-violating cheerleading team in 2004, very little changed in the awful conditions at Abu Ghraib.
Sana X, Arkan Hamed
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Leaving Iraq
For years there has been a steady stream of people leaving Iraq. Our Iraqi buddy Isam Kalka tells us people make a pit stop in Jordan or Syria because it's close and the countries have a history with Iraq, but after that most people travel on elsewhere.
Violet Bay, Anti Zurowski
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Counterfeit Iraqi
For many years, I've known this guy who makes counterfeit documents. He's not the only one in Iraq doing it, but he's one of the best. He can fake anything from a passport to a visa.
Hayder Daffar
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Iraqi Girls: Home & Away
Three Iraqi girls not in an Iraqi world.
VICE Staff
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Vice Fashion - Kurd Stars F.c
Photos by Alex SturrockStyling by Aldene Johnson
Alex Sturrock
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Baghdad Brothel
Allah never smiled on street walking. Under Iraq's former Baathist regime, being a prostitute was seriously risky business.
Alach Minhadi
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Records
OMAR SOULEYMANHighway To Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of SyriaThis is the kind of album people would play on a raucous desert trip, blasting across the sands. Arabic music in general is an acquired taste because of its use of quarter...
VICE Staff
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

You Can't Go Home Again
Mostafa Alshawi fled from Iraq to Sweden with his family when he was three. 20 years later he returned to his home country. He's a proud member of the Shia Islamic clan of the fishermen in Iraq, and in Sweden he is enrolled in the Police Academy.
Rebecca Rusz
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Shhhhh!
"Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" is a Western concept. In Iraq, it's more about the lack of these things. Nightclubs don't exist, sex is sacred and private, and you'd have a better chance seeing two people making out in the street than you would of...
Fareed Abas
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Third Ass From The Right
Iraqis, after living for decades under an oppressive totalitarian regime in which one offhand remark could ensure a quick trip to the gallows, have mastered the art of the whispered political riff.
Zeyad Kasim, Johnny Ryan
3.1.07
The Iraq Issue 2007

Life In Hell
Running for your life from fundamentalist bandits, helplessly watching innocent women being shot in the street, and car-bomb explosions that shatter your bedroom window. Just another humdrum day in the life of a student in Baghdad.
Nabil Kasim
3.1.07
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