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Forgiveness in Iraq

There are candles lit in the living room, the wind is howling outside and we had a snow day last week. Were it not for the constancy of baklava and old men in huge pants, I could think I was in the US. (Though, honestly, my city in the US has baklava and big pantsed-men in spades.) This [...]

2020-10-27T11:14:55-05:00December 14th, 2015|Categories: Iraq|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

1000 Dinar Bargains

"Yek hazar, yek hazar, yek hazar!" This is what you’ll hear if you go shopping with me in Kurdistan! Being shouted loudly by a man or young boy dressed in traditional Kurdish clothes, or by a recording being blasted out over a loud speaker, blaring in your ears… Yek hazar means one thousand. One thousand [...]

2020-11-11T13:07:05-05:00November 3rd, 2015|Categories: Iraq|Tags: , , , , |
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