December 05, 2009
Baghdad, Iraq
I went to visit my aunt in Yarmuk hospital yesterday.
The security guard asks the visitors to put aside guns and cameras while inside the hospital. Pray that my aunt is better soon so that she can leave the dilapidated hospital and return home. The hospitals in Baghdad are not places to be healed, rather, they are places where you can get even sicker and contract diseases from the lack of hygiene.
I have so much to say but it is all broken up. So I will say what I have to say in pieces.
Life goes on.
The palm trees still stand proud.
The Iraqi people carry (too much) pride.
Al Rasheed street is in ruins.
Middle class neighborhoods of the past are now slums.
Saddam ruined this country.
The new generation of Iraqi youth are the hope.
Almost all Iraqis love their country greatly and deeply.
Iraqi real estate is expensive. (?!)
Family is precious.
The past is the past and Iraq will never return to its previous states. It can only create new versions of itself.
Baghdad is enveloped in walls.
There are hints of sectarianism everywhere.
Americans are hiding in their bases and are nowhere to be found on the ground. Only in the sky in their invasive blackhawk helicopters.
The Green Zone and the American Embassy are on prime Baghdadi real estate on a large stretch of the banks of the Tigris but they have obstructed any form of beauty with ugly blast walls that line the whole shoreline.
Baghdad, Iraq
I went to visit my aunt in Yarmuk hospital yesterday.
The security guard asks the visitors to put aside guns and cameras while inside the hospital. Pray that my aunt is better soon so that she can leave the dilapidated hospital and return home. The hospitals in Baghdad are not places to be healed, rather, they are places where you can get even sicker and contract diseases from the lack of hygiene.
I have so much to say but it is all broken up. So I will say what I have to say in pieces.
Life goes on.
The palm trees still stand proud.
The Iraqi people carry (too much) pride.
Al Rasheed street is in ruins.
Middle class neighborhoods of the past are now slums.
Saddam ruined this country.
The new generation of Iraqi youth are the hope.
Almost all Iraqis love their country greatly and deeply.
Iraqi real estate is expensive. (?!)
Family is precious.
The past is the past and Iraq will never return to its previous states. It can only create new versions of itself.
Baghdad is enveloped in walls.
There are hints of sectarianism everywhere.
Americans are hiding in their bases and are nowhere to be found on the ground. Only in the sky in their invasive blackhawk helicopters.
The Green Zone and the American Embassy are on prime Baghdadi real estate on a large stretch of the banks of the Tigris but they have obstructed any form of beauty with ugly blast walls that line the whole shoreline.
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