Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall
Yet this ancient tradition is now under threat from social and political change
Bernard OÕKane
University of London
navigating the cityÕs pinball machine of social life with tolerable efficiency
The World through the Eyes of Angels: An Iraqi Novel Cooking with herbs & spices Innocent blood has been spilledMahmoud SaeedMosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is growing up. Burdened with chores from an early age, and afflicted with an older brother who persecutes him with mindless sadism, the child finds happiness only