Gorilla’s Guides

I am posting three extracts of three accounts published by the British “Financial Times” as part of their Iraq In Depth Series

1. The first account describes a day in the life of day of a woman working as an administrator in the university.
2. In the second article in the series, Abbas, a driver who lives in Sadr City describes his daily battle against rubbish, rats and the fear of explosions and gunfire.
3. The third article is an interview with a Kurdish university lecturer. He describes the development there as a “hollow shell” overlaying massive corruption and nepotism. Like so many Irakis — including those Irakis who write here, he dares not give his real name. 

Gorilla’s Guides

Today two “Gorilla’s Guides” team members became refugees. Targeted because they worked in Baghdad distributing food and water for a humanitarian organisation they were warned that they and their children would be killed if they did not leave their homes. After a terrifying trip through hostile territory they arrived with their families to one of the refugee camps run by Maryam.

Thanks be to God that they made it.

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