Meet the women who risked everything to open their own restaurant in male-dominated Iraq
It’s just gone lunchtime when we reach Three Sisters, a tiny restaurant in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah.
After the comings and goings of a bustling lunch hour, the owner Naska Nassredin allows herself to take a break.
We find her at a table outside the restaurant, enjoying the warm afternoon sun.
“You must eat first,” commands the 40-year-old, ushering us towards the door.
Inside the narrow restaurant, her business partners Sairan Raeuf and Awas Hissam hover over the clutter of pots and pans, stirring big metal spoons and pitching salt on to different kinds of rice and boiled meats.
All three women are from Kirkuk, a disputed area west of Sulaymaniyah. They were forced to leave their homes in the early 90s as a result of Saddam Hussein’s ruthless persecution of the Kurdish population.
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