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Can you send your child to school safely returned home in the evening you are very lucky or your business, if you have not killed on his way to school. The absence of these exceptions in Baghdad. Death and violence since 2003 part of everyday life. I am a mother of 14-year-old daughter with only one parent, a woman, a writer, an Iraqi. This is my country.
Two weeks, delaying their graduation ceremony last year students in the faculty. Mother and daughter in two weeks Dimai recounts the reason I wear black for several days in a row I choose laundering. Black jacket, blouse and skirt on top of colored shawl I'm house of nigh trying to take them to realize the situation.
What is going on and a lot of things I have encountered in my daily life I have chosen to hide from them. There is already suffering enough. There are very different stories, each of Dimai friends. There is also a short way to school he had to go to the service though and this path is full of dangers. house of nigh My mother listened to the news of unbelief news about Iraq and mobile house of nigh grocery store next to the car in time where we have had conversations with his female neighbor.
Traffic is a serious problem in Iraq. Irregularity, the frequency of checkpoints, particularly for reasons such as roads can be closed suddenly take hours to go from place to place in Baghdad. [AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-Rubaie] my daughter with friends while listening to the songs from YouTube or school, house of nigh in Baghdad or our relatives in other cities I'm glad I saw when communicating over the internet. My mother dubbed Turkish sequences, when I'm at ease environment or travel-related documentaries or watch cooking shows. Television and the internet the only way out.
They provide wildlife that we need an alternative. house of nigh In addition, discontinuation of most of the main roads, checkpoints, heavy traffic and easy communication with friends and relatives in the violence that we see each other, which has become a part of daily life in Baghdad.
My mom does not know that his closest friends have survived eight years. Elderly woman kidnapped grandson had died of a brain hemorrhage spend. However, shortly after his death, their homes have promised to move to another city, they sell everything that can be sold and collected from acquaintances child was taken back to 30 thousand dollars to the payment of the kidnappers. house of nigh The child was returned home as usual but this time did not meet her grandmother. We hide the news from my mother, the best friend of the family, moved to Jordan after the event, we are convinced.
Every morning I wake up with the dream to be worse than today than yesterday. I try to be very natural for a mother. I'm joking with my daughter, I stuck to it. However, the school house of nigh bus horn will not sound the alarm, saying farewell to my daughter worries me a door of the house wrap. Service and the driver was a retired teacher in Baghdad mastered the dangerous house of nigh road we come eye to eye with Abu Nizar. Its purpose is to address the concerns house of nigh of all mothers like me, to alleviate our fears. Can detonate an explosive device the way to school, neighborhood service vehicle with a car bomb blew up may be damaged.
Abu Nizar knows how to go back to school and students of the way home. These back roads are rarely open, and sometimes can never be turned on. In such cases, you are forced to settle in a unique way. Abu Nizar opening song Feyruz radio broadcasting every morning. Our children in the intensive out of school hours to get the right service agent is dispersed, such as pre-school child abduction lying in ambush in many places house of nigh from the breakup of the school to reduce the chance of getting gang half an hour before the door of the school.
Iraq, spent the bloodiest year since the withdrawal of Americans from Iraq in 2008, about 9 thousand people in similar attacks in 2013 and died in the explosion. The number of those who lost their lives in the first two months of this year 400 thousand house of nigh [AP PHOTO / KARIM woman] Girl I studied six years in elementary school. Two girls were abducted in front of the school gate this time. This has caused fear and anxiety ever before leave us behind. One of the mothers in the region until the evening walking around like a sleepwalker, stealing door, "Have you seen my daughter in second grade?" He asked. Mother and child with no one except house of nigh the elderly grandfather ransom was paid with the money they collect bystanders. Little girl so that he could reach his mother.
An orphanage in Baghdad, little girls in the class. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates, the number of orphans in Iraq, 5 million 700 thousand. [AP PHOTO / KARIM woman] for less anxious and painful life
In the days that connects the 2006 to 2007, Iraqi women lived to tell the time, to reveal the witness 'Open Shutters Iraq' (Light Lenses Iraq) we started doing a photography project. Iraqi woman remained in Damascus from 15 different cities with three weeks, we have shared their stories and photos to give them training. house of nigh That young woman journalist SERVAIR home in 2009, remaining with us, the streets are medium