Just when you think the Noir Series from Akashic Books has gone everywhere — Lagos, Montana, and earlier this year, Prague — editors Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple (the publisher of Akashic) find a ...

The Baghdad City of Peace Carnival started four years ago, with a young woman named Noof Assi. "We started talking to people about a celebration for peace day in Baghdad," Assi says. She's referring ...

Baghdad is a city that looms large in the American imagination. In 2003, at the start of the last Iraq war, it was occupied by U.S. troops. In the years that followed, thousands of U.S. citizens ...