Articles by Super User

Much was made of the looting of Iraq's National Library after the fall of Baghdad and the collapse of order in the capital. Less is known about the role of small private libraries and how they continue to provide some of the only access to scholarly material for Baghdad's intellectuals and academics. Hameeda Al-Bassam, a disabled Shi'a woman in Iraq, describes her work as a librarian, as well as the difficulties she faces, not only as a woman, but also as someone bound to a wheelchair.