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‘I Face Threat From Armed Groups’

By | 02.03.09 | 8:25 am

Communicating with Iraqis is, as you might imagine, difficult. Beyond the language barrier, the unreliability of electricity and Internet access makes emailing Iraqis a dicey proposition when there’s a deadline to meet. So some Iraqi translators I reached out to for my piece yesterday about potential compromises of their More…

Iraqi Translators Fear Retribution

By | 02.02.09 | 6:00 am

In the United States, it would be a mundane tax form, with standard provisions for cataloging an employee’s tax obligations. Full name. Citizen ID number. Address. Phone. Specifications about any children.

But Form D/4a from the Iraqi Ministry of Finance is sending waves of anxiety through the community of Iraqis More…