Young Iraqi hopes books will stop his peers from migrating
Bathed in the rainbow-colored light of an old Baghdadi window, Ali al-Makhzomy explained his plan to get technology-obsessed young Iraqis to read books — old-fashioned books, with pages. Outside the cafe where he sat, concrete blocks protect businesses from car bombs. Eleven years after Saddam Hussein was toppled, young people who despair of a future in […]Jane Arraf reports for The Washington Post:
Bathed in the rainbow-colored light of an old Baghdadi window, Ali al-Makhzomy explained his plan to get technology-obsessed young Iraqis to read books — old-fashioned books, with pages.
Outside the cafe where he sat, concrete blocks protect businesses from car bombs. Eleven years after Saddam Hussein was toppled, young people who despair of a future in Iraq are still trying to emigrate. Many of those who remain hope that their country will someday emerge as a new version of ultra-modern, oil-rich Dubai.
