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Cathy Otten

Cathy Otten is a journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan. She reports on the war with ISIS and is the author of a forthcoming book, With Ash on Their Faces: Yazidi Women and the Islamic State.

A Legacy in Ruins

A Legacy in Ruins

What now for Iraq’s Mosul Museum, recently liberated from ISIS?

by Cathy Otten | Monday, June 05, 2017
Letter from Sinjar: Convert or Die

Letter from Sinjar: Convert or Die

A city ravaged by ISIS is littered with explosives and mass graves

by Cathy Otten | Monday, February 29, 2016

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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