Medic, Driver, Witness, Baker: 4 Faces Of Iraqi’s Uprising
December 10, 2019
3:35 pm
Tears roll out from behind Ayat’s oversized glasses but her hands, facing the sky, are steady. Her friends are gone, killed protesting Iraq’s government, but their “revolution” continues.
“Peace be upon you and on your two rivers, Iraq,” sings Kazem Saher as young demonstrators mourn their peers in the epicentre of the anti-regime movement in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square.
They stand sombre and motionless under the imposing “Liberty Monument,” as if mirroring the bronze figures on the long marble slab above them retelling Iraq’s tumultuous history.
Ayat, a medic, is but one of the characters in this new chapter, along …
