In December 2003, just days after deposed President Saddam Hussein was captured, I went to Iraq as a journalist.
“If you get to Hilla,” my mother told me, “look for our house on the banks of the Euphrates.”
In December 2003, just days after deposed President Saddam Hussein was captured, I went to Iraq as a journalist.
“If you get to Hilla,” my mother told me, “look for our house on the banks of the Euphrates.”
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