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Louis Yako
Louis Yako, PhD,
is an independent Iraqi-American anthropologist, writer, poet, and journalist.
Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?
March 15, 2024
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Louis Yako
The Trump Age: Critical Questions
June 23, 2023
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Louis Yako
Three Poems About Iraq
April 7, 2023
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Louis Yako
On the Great Resignation: Interrogating the Neoliberal Narrative
February 24, 2023
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Louis Yako
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: a Practical Guide
April 9, 2021
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Louis Yako
Seagulls Without a Sea: Days at Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Iraq
December 18, 2020
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Louis Yako
20 Postcard Notes From Iraq: With Love in the Age of COVID-19
August 7, 2020
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Louis Yako
America Has Always Been Burning with Racism: Who is the Enemy?
June 5, 2020
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Louis Yako
Language as a Prison: Why Do We Fall in Love?
September 27, 2019
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Louis Yako
Working in America: Paychecks for Silence
September 20, 2019
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Louis Yako
From Citizens to Customers: the Corporate Customer Service Culture in America
September 21, 2018
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Louis Yako
Celebrating the Wounds of Exile with Poetry
July 20, 2018
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Louis Yako
2018 Won’t be New or Happy, Either!
December 29, 2017
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Louis Yako
Post-War Language: Death and Exile in Iraqi Literature After 2003
October 6, 2017
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Louis Yako
Iraqi Voices Reflecting on Home, Exile, and the Future
August 4, 2017
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Louis Yako
The Road to Understanding Syria Goes Through Iraq
June 23, 2017
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Louis Yako
Remembering Rasul Gamzatov: The Poet of the People
October 28, 2016
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Louis Yako
Can Westerners Help Refugees from War-torn Countries?
September 23, 2016
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Louis Yako
I Have Nothing “Newsworthy” to Report this Week
June 24, 2016
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Louis Yako
Dubai Transit
May 2, 2016
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Louis Yako
We Live in One World Not Three Worlds
March 18, 2016
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Louis Yako
Why We Should be Thankful for Trump’s Muslim Ban Comments
December 11, 2015
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Louis Yako
To a Courageous Palestinian Mother
November 6, 2015
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Louis Yako
From Iraq to Ireland: Heather Flowers and Mutual Human Experiences
September 18, 2015
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Louis Yako
Paying My Debt to Greece
July 10, 2015
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Louis Yako
Memories of the UN Iraq Embargo
May 15, 2015
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Louis Yako
The Dangers of Being Charlie Hebdo
January 30, 2015
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Louis Yako
Academia Deserves its Crisis
September 27, 2013
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Louis Yako