October 04, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Donate NowIn February 2019, Zahra Ahmad traveled back to her homeland, Iraq, to reunite with her father’s family after a 20-year separation. In Baghdad, Ahmad rediscovered herself as she was immersed in Middle Eastern culture. Walking Iraq’s streets humanized the people she’d grown up watching on TV and dismantled stereotypes reiterated throughout her upbringing.