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In Sulaymaniyah, reporting on Kurdish issues
Winthrop Rodgers is a journalist based in Sulaymaniyah, focusing on politics, economics, and human rights. Currently Project Manager at Metrography, Iraq's first photojournalism agency, he was previously Senior Editor at NRT English.
![Iraqi displaced students, who fled clashes between pro-government forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, sit in a classroom at the Hamdaniya University for internally displaced people on Jan. 31, 2016, in Arbil, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-05/GettyImages-507740266%20copy.jpeg?h=a5ae579a&itok=DXue0o3d)
![Iraqi teachers and civil servants protest on Oct. 7, 2015 in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's Kurdistan region.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-01/GettyImages-491636756.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=TVPr-Yt3)
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![Star Ahmad Sleman, 40, stands in a field of tobacco in Khanaqa, Erbil governorate on September 2, 2023. (Credit: Winthrop Rodgers)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2023-09/1aDSC_1251.jpg?h=1d34674f&itok=h6nzLsNg)
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![Artist Tara Abdulla in her studio in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2023-02/DSC_0172.jpg?h=1d34674f&itok=J0KI9xl1)
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![Children stand next to a sign reading "To reconstruct it, do not leave Halabja alone" by the Martyrs' Cemetery in Halabja on March 16, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2022-03/2RodgersHalabja.jpg?h=efb3fb8f&itok=lA1gBBXB)
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