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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Displacement, destruction and devastation scarred Iraq after decades of war and corruption. However, when my mother reflects on her childhood, she speaks of a once flourishing country, where different religious groups treated each other as equal and as one community, the Iraqi community. The leading medical school she attended, the University of Baghdad was free of charge, as was healthcare for the majority of the Iraqi citizens. Most know what happened next. 19 years ago, The US and the UK invaded Iraq, on the false premise Iraq held weapons of mass destruction. Iraq also has one of the large…