Adnan Al-Daini

Dr. Adnan Al-Daini is a retired university lecturer. He is a British citizen born in Iraq, which he left in 1962, at age 17, on a scholarship to study in Britain. He writes regularly on issues of social justice and the Middle East. Adnan is a contributing writer for the Huffington Post.

The Agony of Iraq, the Country of My Birth

As a 17-year-old in 1962, I was one of a group of about 10 Iraqi students doing A-levels in a college in the UK. The group included three Christians and one Kurd; the rest were Muslims. Please do not ask me how many of the Muslims were Shia and how many were Sunni. I had … Continue reading “The Agony of Iraq, the Country of My Birth”