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Emma Sky

Emma Sky

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Emma Sky is director at Yale’s International Leadership Centre and the author of 'The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq' and 'In a Time of Monsters: Traveling in a Middle East in Revolt'

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Getty/ Nick Donaldson
Weekend Essay: The line we can draw from the invasion of Iraq to Ukraine

Twenty years on, a line – although not a straight one – can be drawn from then to today's conflict in Ukraine

WeekendMarch 17, 2023
Emma Sky
Nicholas Donaldson / The National
Weekend Essay: Lessons from a tour of the side streets of Iraq

From Mosul to Ramadi to Baghdad, a new generation is trying to heal from the scars of war

WeekendApril 29, 2022
Emma Sky
epa08320837 A man takes photographs outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, 25 March 2020. It has been reported that the Houses of Parliament is due to close later tonight after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has instructed Britons can only leave their homes for essential reasons or may be fined, in order to stem the widespread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. EPA/WILL OLIVER
Brought together in isolation: a letter from locked-down London

The UK began the year deeply divided, but under mandatory self-isolation its residents are rediscovering a sense of unity and solidarity

OpinionMarch 25, 2020
Emma Sky
Iraqi university students chant slogans next to a banner reading "we want a homeland" in Arabic, as they take part in a demonstration in Baghdad last month. EPA
The contest between Iraq’s people and its politicians is likely to come to a head in 2020

The outcome of the protests in Iraq will have consequences not only for the people but across the region

CommentJanuary 02, 2020
Emma Sky
While Iraqi forces and fighters were lauded by prime minister Haider Al Abadi for helping to liberate the country, everybody in Mosul now has their work cut out for them. Fadel Senna / AFP
Iraqis are celebrating ISIL's demise, but greater challenges are ahead

Iraq and the international community must avoid the mistakes of the past

OpinionJuly 11, 2017
Emma Sky

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