Photo by Ceerwan Aziz
This is Jameela.
She’s featured in a new report Oxfam has just published on the challenges facing women in Iraq today—challenges that have plunged many of them, including those widowed by the war, deep into poverty. “In Her Own Words” is the name of the report. But words hardly begin to capture all that Jameela’s face conveys.
I print out her portrait and study it.
She’s 50. Only 50.
Two years younger than me? How could that be? Read the rest of this entry »
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