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Twenty years after the Americans, in Baghdad, a sham peace

2024-02-11T06:14:42.398Z

Highlights: Twenty years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi capital has not completed the hoped-for transition. Corruption of elites, political-religious clashes, Baghdad is trying to rebuild itself on the ruins of History. This article comes from Figaro Magazine Special envoy to Baghdad. Flash sale -70% on digital subscription I ENJOY IT Already subscribed? Log in Log in to your account to read the rest of this article. You have 91% left to discover.


REPORT - Twenty years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi capital has not completed the hoped-for transition. Corruption of elites, political-religious clashes, Baghdad is trying to rebuild itself on the ruins of History.


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Figaro Magazine

Special envoy to Baghdad

The shapely figure of the woman, draped in an orange dress revealing her artificially generous curves, strolls down the long red carpet rolled out along the avenue separating Baghdad's two victory arches.

Formed by two gigantic sabers brandished in the light of hands emerging from the ground, these monuments from the era of Saddam Hussein were erected by the dictator to mark the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988.

As she walks confidently, without an escort, her legs split the fabric and reveal the bare flesh of her thigh, revealing a tattoo and hinting at the absence of underwear.

An outfit whose immodesty would have produced its effect even in more lenient and less modest latitudes.

In Baghdad too, even in the middle of the elite of the Iraqi capital gathered in tuxedos and evening dresses for the Iraq International Awards ceremony – the first edition of this event imagining itself as the…

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