Plough’s Arabic editor, Yacoub Yousif served in the Iraqi army during the Iraq-Iran War, but his Christian faith eventually led him to become a pacifist and conscientious objector to military service. In Saddam Hussein’s army, refusing to fight meant summary execution, so Yacoub and his wife, Layla, left their homeland behind. They were granted asylum in Sweden, where they continued their search for a way of peacemaking and brotherhood. Read Full Biography
