63 Quotes About Baghdad

It doesn’t really matter you aren’t here.The raindrops are keeping you alivethrough growing palm forests.Wild, untamed and unconquered,as your wandering heart.

What is love but a word?A feeling roughly concordant to fear?A fantasy that breaks throughthe heartbreakand endows the defeated with bravery?

Tens of voices announcedthe time for the prayer.In all the magnificence of the scenery,“God is the Greatest” fits flawlessly,and makes me close my eyesand murmur my supplication.

I again flourished my papers: “Here’re my credentials from the Coalition Administration.” The American scrutinized the papers, shook his head in amazement, and smiled. “A South African,” he said. “You’re sure a long way from home.” He radioed through for instructions and indicated that I should bring my hired car up to the side of the roadblock and wait.

لم يبحثْ عن زينب التي كان يعرفُ تماماً أنّ طريقَها قد افترقَ عن طريقِهِ الوعْر قبلَ عُقود، لكنّه بحثَ عن الوطن الذي تركه هنا ليجدَه اليوم في بقايا جذعٍ ملقى على الأرض بعدَ أن فُصِلَ عن شجرةِ رمّانٍ يابسة.

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

It smelled like a slaughterhouse. I was standing in the interrogation room of Saddam Hussein's Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. A stench of blood and death permeated my senses, my clothes, my being.

يسألني صديق: متى تبدأ الحرب؟وأجيب بسرعة: حين يُقصَف القصر الجمهوري في بغداد

Our love is like the moon,changeable through all the phasesof complete disappearance to full existence.It raises the sea up to the skyand makes the cool wind ripple its surface.Blindly sparkling it doesn’t let us see.I know I’m not the only one to love you,but your heart inquired only of me.