OWFI was founded by a few Iraqi women who decided to have a voice. We were sure the future government would not be a woman-friendly one. From the fir…

- Yanar Mohammed

Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or third wife. Now it's a very common story.…

- Yanar Mohammed

When I was a student, I was dressed like a modern girl and I wore long shorts. That is part of the past. There is fear in the streets. You cannot go …

- Yanar Mohammed

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that…

- Yanar Mohammed

The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It was only to be expect…

- Yanar Mohammed

The constitution has put women in a position where no one will protect them from religious cliques. If a woman is the third or the fourth wife and sh…

- Yanar Mohammed

Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new to Iraq and we are reaping the resu…

- Yanar Mohammed

The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

- Yanar Mohammed

In Iraq, we did have dictators, we did have times of war but it never reached the point where one person, or a group, would be attacking another grou…

- Yanar Mohammed