The Basra Museum opened its first gallery in September 2016 after over twenty years of inactivity. The opening of the new gallery, with 440 artefacts and objects from Basra’s excavated sites, represents the first major milestone in an eight-year project to reinstate the museum, by the British Army, the UK-based charity the Friends of Basra…

In a poem written in exile, the playwright Bertolt Brecht, who fled persecution in Germany in 1933 for his pro-communist plays and writings, likens his work to that of a reporter: The words which they call out to each other I report. What the mother says to her son What the employer tells the employee…