Hamza Salman and Abu Ali watched the water disappear around them. They had to save what could be saved in order to continue living. As one of them embarks on a migration journey, the second hopes for a miraculous solution.
Did the Prime Minister die by an airstrike targeting his house, or was he injured? Why did armed men take to the streets and storm the Green Zone? Who won the elections and who will be the new president? These are matters of no concern to digital miners. They live in isolation. Their language is numbers. Life at night suits them more than in the day.
The smuggler “Abu Hussam” gathered five Iraqi youths, including Zaid, through the social media platform, Telegram and arranged false documents to smuggle them to Europe. In an investigation the secrets of smuggling networks to Europe have been revealed by Jummar. The five young men dressed in formal suits, passed through Sharjah, then Moscow and Poland, all the way to Germany. This is the story of a journey of escape of a young man and four of his friends.
It was the first year of the occupation. In that atmosphere filled with the smoke of bombings and the fumes of fires, even the healthiest of eyes suffered. What, then, could be expected of eyes as delicate and susceptible as mine? Everything around me seemed to pave the way toward my impending blindness: the doctor's awkward questions and his clinic’s painful lighting, pollen dust mixed with toxic gases, the sharp blades of knives pointing at me at garage stalls and shops, the harsh sun and its searing rays piercing through layers of my eyes’ aching membranes, the suffocating military color palette wherever I turned... And, finally, there was the school fence, strangled by barbed wire much like our own lives were.
