Back to Kirkuk, Iraq

After visiting Iraq in July I wrote a pretty long article about my friend Shoresh, who is the fascinating person behind the project we (i.e. Social Democratic Students of Sweden, SSF and Kurdish Students in Sweden, KSF) are planning to do in Kirkuk (basically to start up a youth center). In the article Shoresh tells you about how and why his family left Iraq for Sweden, why he is politically active and how the idea of starting up a youth center came about. But he also tells you what it was like to come back to his hometown of Kirkuk post-Saddam, and visit his mother's grave for the first time in 21 years. You will find the article here (in Swedish), and please don’t miss the part about “the politics of farting/fispolitiken”.
(Picture taken right before we left for Iraq, Shoresh is guy to the far left in the front row, from www.kurdstudent.com)