(1/2) I was born in 1983 during the war between Iraq and Iran, and my dad was fighting on the front line. He used to visit us a few times per year. Growing up during the war wasn’t easy. We couldn’t go to school, and the sanctions really caused people to suffer because there was no food coming into the country. After the Iran-Iraq war finished, then the Iraq-Kuwait war started. My dad fought in that war also.
When I was 7, the Kurds in our village were fighting the Iraqi army . . .