Halabja Day is solemn by design. It asks people to stop, remember, and face a past that is still painfully close for many families. Nearly four decades later, the names Halabja, Anfal, and the mass ...

Some 182,000 Kurds living in Iraqi Kurdistan were killed in 1988 by chemical weapons launched by Saddam Hussein's regime in a series of attacks known as the "Anfal campaign". That campaign included ...

In March 1988, those who fled to Turkey after the Halabja massacre were first settled in tents along the banks of the Tigris River. From this reality, the novel stretches from Halabja to Diyarbakır, ...