Flying Carpet out of Baghdad
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The last couple of weeks in Iraq have been all about the US withdrawal, oil, corruption and the future of the country in a brutal, impoverished Middle East. I was leaving and wanted something to remind me of the Iraq which every now and then I have glimpsed in a radiant pink-and-green tiled mosque dome, in Mutanabbi Street’s literary tea houses, in the old universities and in the Iraqi pride that this was once a country that valued beauty and learning and maybe, one day, will have time for such things again.
admin @ July 9, 2009