In classrooms, preoccupations of the 'enemy'
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad | China Daily | Updated: 2008-03-20 07:18
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An Iraqi girl chews gum at the ruins of the former Iraqi army air defenses headquarters near where she lives with her family in central Baghdad, Tuesday. The buildings were destroyed in the "Shock and Awe" bombing campaign in the early stages of the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. AP |
Ali stands in the middle of the ninth-grade class, holding an English textbook in one hand and resting the other on a battered wooden desk. To his left is a blackboard on which he has conjugated the verb "to play", and on the other side is a broken cupboard on which someone has scribbled: "Long live Sayed Moqtada. Long live Moqtada ... Moqtada ... Moqtada."
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