Winthrop Rodgers is a Chatham House associate fellow and journalist who focuses on politics, human rights, and political economy in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Index on Censorship, New Lines Magazine, Al-Monitor, the Dial, and independent Kurdish outlets.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a joint press conference with Kurdish Regional Government President Masoud Barzani in Erbil, Iraq, on Sept. 17, 2009.
Girls walk to class on the first day of school in a Yazidi displacement camp about 9 miles from the city of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Nov. 1, 2021.
