‘I feel free’ The running club giving flight to girls from Erbil
The mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan are edged with a tangerine glow. We are on our way from Erbil to Shaqlawa, a historic city about 50 minutes away, to hike up Safeen mountain. Inside the minibus, a group of teenage girls play their favourite songs.
They live with their families in one of Erbil’s two main camps for internally displaced people (IDPs), Baharka and Harsham, having fled Mosul and surrounding towns such as Tal Afar and Sinjar, when the area was
