It’s dusk in Baghdad, and the air is a mixture of dust, generator smoke and the damp whiff of the Tigris River. On the streets near the city’s Tahrir Square, which five years earlier was filled with crowds of angry young protesters, trees are being cut down to make way for traffic.
Postcard from Baghdad: How climate activists are turning the ‘Tishreen dream’ green
The 2019 uprising ended violently, but young people’s fight for a better future carries on. Hayder Al Shakeri meets the activists adopting new tactics to tackle Iraq’s most pressing challenge yet.
The World Today
Published 9 December 2024 — 3 minute READ
Image — More than 600 Iraqis were killed when authorities violently ended the Tishreen protests of 2019. Photo: Murtadha Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.
