Al-Hadba‘a, the Hunchback Minaret adjoining the al-Nuri Mosque, gave Mosul its famous sobriquet. Destroyed by the Islamic State, the iconic monument is now being remembered for what it never was.

The city may soon be freed from the Islamic State, but it won’t be easy to govern afterward. Foreigners—and even Iraqis—had better study its complexities.

Remembering Fatema Mernissi, a woman on a mission to redefine boundaries for women in the Muslim world.

An Iraqi exile eavesdrops on life in her old hometown of Mosul.