A feature for Jummar on the 20th anniversary of the war on Iraq, recounting my first ever foreign assignment as a young journalist. https://jummar.media/en/328

Published in the “Narrated” section of The New Arab https://bit.ly/448I8IT

Tensions escalate between Wasim and his mother as they're forced to evacuate for a night due to a WWII bomb excavation order by the police.