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.
