Spoke to Auntie Sameera today. She said
"We are rotting away at home...at times I feel my heart is going to burst...
Can you imagine our only outing is to the vegetable store, 3 minutes away. We consider that an important event. Your cousins dress up for that occasion...But then we don't even know if we will make it back in one piece...Layla, my heart is going to burst..."
Met with Fatima, she arrived from Baghdad a few days ago. She said
They kept me at the airport for 4 hours, they saw am here for medical purposes and have a sponsor, but still they kept me like a dog. Could they not see am an elderly woman, hardly able to breathe ? Yalla it's better than the bombs...Do you know who puts these car bombs ya Layla? The Americans and the Iranians, of that we are 100% sure. They leave us to rot that way...
Spoke to Zakaria
Are you managing to cope with no water and no electricity?
What water and what electricity ? I have forgotten what they look like. Yabbah, we are all rotting away...
Radhee called me
Layla, am so bored, I know I keep calling you, am so bored at home, I have nothing to do, I can't go out, Wallah I feel am rotting in this prison...
Nawal said to me
Did you know I managed to go to Al Rasheed Street, it's been over 2 years since I've ventured there, but had to go
What's it like now? I asked
It looks worse than Kabul, it's rotting away...What is left of Baghdad is rotting away...
Painting: Iraqi artist, Rakkan Dabdoob.
"We are rotting away at home...at times I feel my heart is going to burst...
Can you imagine our only outing is to the vegetable store, 3 minutes away. We consider that an important event. Your cousins dress up for that occasion...But then we don't even know if we will make it back in one piece...Layla, my heart is going to burst..."
Met with Fatima, she arrived from Baghdad a few days ago. She said
They kept me at the airport for 4 hours, they saw am here for medical purposes and have a sponsor, but still they kept me like a dog. Could they not see am an elderly woman, hardly able to breathe ? Yalla it's better than the bombs...Do you know who puts these car bombs ya Layla? The Americans and the Iranians, of that we are 100% sure. They leave us to rot that way...
Spoke to Zakaria
Are you managing to cope with no water and no electricity?
What water and what electricity ? I have forgotten what they look like. Yabbah, we are all rotting away...
Radhee called me
Layla, am so bored, I know I keep calling you, am so bored at home, I have nothing to do, I can't go out, Wallah I feel am rotting in this prison...
Nawal said to me
Did you know I managed to go to Al Rasheed Street, it's been over 2 years since I've ventured there, but had to go
What's it like now? I asked
It looks worse than Kabul, it's rotting away...What is left of Baghdad is rotting away...
Painting: Iraqi artist, Rakkan Dabdoob.
