Dana Taib Menmy is a Kurdish journalist from Sulaimaniyah who has written for several Kurdish media outlets since 2006.
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![ZAGROS, IRAQ - JULY 27: A Kurdish-Iranian smuggler packs his horse in preparation to carry goods over the Iraq border into Iran on July 27, 2017 in the Zagros Mountains, northern Iraq. (Photo by Martyn Aim/Corbis via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/03/GettyImages-856013076.jpg/GettyImages-856013076.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=_Th28PfV)
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![Sky over Irbil On December 2018, A trip inside Kurdistan, between Irbil and Sulaymaniyya: a Country that is not a State. (Photo by Alessandro Annunziato/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/09/GettyImages-1084944682.jpg/GettyImages-1084944682.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=BI2M6npm)
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