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1:30 at night and Baghdad cafes and restaurants are teeming with customers ..bahjh Ramadan returned to lift curfew
7/11/2015
BAGHDAD - Iraq Press -10 July: one thirty in the morning and a cafe "Aroma" in a high-end neighborhoods in Baghdad is packed with customers who enjoy suhoor usual Ramadan fasting before they start a new day.
It becomes elegant waiters come and gone their clothes and they offer soup, tea and water pipe while food buffet tempt customers grilled meats, salads and fruit juices. Lift the night curfew has brought in the Iraqi capital, five months before a new taste on Ramadan and lavish banquet, which extends until dawn for the first time since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and brought to the country from acts of violence and unrest.
And the gratitude of all Iraqis in Baghdad seize any opportunity to enjoy life disintegrate while other parts of the country and the fighters clashed organization "Daash" with the army at a distance of less than 50 kilometers from the capital at a time when car bombs still lives harvested regularly bombings.
In the cafe "Aroma", said an Iraqi named Fawzia: "This is the first year where we feel the joy of Ramadan, the way in which we have become accustomed in the seventies and eighties," referring to the era described by many Baghdad residents now golden age.
And without that troubled her the idea of approaching the new Labour Day Fawzia sat with her relatives enjoy encounters Ramadan.
She said: "Yagmurk feeling of joy to this scene because all the families went through a lot. There is no fear. We have seen that in Turkey, Lebanon, when we used to travel and now it's happening here as well. "
It filled the streets in the Jadiriyah neighborhood overlooking the Tigris River about the cafe car. The pedestrian hiking in flooded streets lined with light bulbs and the trees on both sides enjoy relatively cool breath after midnight compared temperature approaching during the day of 50 degrees Celsius.
He says Abbas al-Tai, 46, who was eating suhoor with his family of six members of the "lifting of the curfew has had a tremendous impact ... life began suddenly."
Tai said a resident of the United States and who has chosen to return to his hometown with his family during the month of Ramadan, "there has been life now. Baghdad love life ... at night and out in itself a challenge to the violence. "
Ramadan nights
Although the apparent luxury in Jadiriyah does not extend to all parts of Baghdad, the nights of Ramadan hold their own in various parts of the capital.
In Sadr City, a poor Shiite neighborhood children riding bikes after dark and starts young men playing games in football while Mahabs men playing a traditional game performed by two teams, one looking for ring holds one of the opposing team members.
Most families do not have money allows them to eat suhoor abroad. Some assume fundraiser to provide food for the poor during the holy month.
In the upscale neighborhood west of the Tigris River Mall is packed with complex Mansour for cinemas with shoppers. After years of suffering from war and deprivation, the people of Baghdad learn to cherish moments of stability, even if they are fragile and fleeting.
The mother said Abbas al-Tai wife Maram "We were thirsty for such a good time. From 2003 to 2015 life almost entirely.
"I remember a time when I was small at the age of my daughters and I used to tell them about this time. Now Busahn to live this life. We thank God for that. We hope that this lasts mother. Ended (1
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7/11/2015
BAGHDAD - Iraq Press -10 July: one thirty in the morning and a cafe "Aroma" in a high-end neighborhoods in Baghdad is packed with customers who enjoy suhoor usual Ramadan fasting before they start a new day.
It becomes elegant waiters come and gone their clothes and they offer soup, tea and water pipe while food buffet tempt customers grilled meats, salads and fruit juices. Lift the night curfew has brought in the Iraqi capital, five months before a new taste on Ramadan and lavish banquet, which extends until dawn for the first time since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and brought to the country from acts of violence and unrest.
And the gratitude of all Iraqis in Baghdad seize any opportunity to enjoy life disintegrate while other parts of the country and the fighters clashed organization "Daash" with the army at a distance of less than 50 kilometers from the capital at a time when car bombs still lives harvested regularly bombings.
In the cafe "Aroma", said an Iraqi named Fawzia: "This is the first year where we feel the joy of Ramadan, the way in which we have become accustomed in the seventies and eighties," referring to the era described by many Baghdad residents now golden age.
And without that troubled her the idea of approaching the new Labour Day Fawzia sat with her relatives enjoy encounters Ramadan.
She said: "Yagmurk feeling of joy to this scene because all the families went through a lot. There is no fear. We have seen that in Turkey, Lebanon, when we used to travel and now it's happening here as well. "
It filled the streets in the Jadiriyah neighborhood overlooking the Tigris River about the cafe car. The pedestrian hiking in flooded streets lined with light bulbs and the trees on both sides enjoy relatively cool breath after midnight compared temperature approaching during the day of 50 degrees Celsius.
He says Abbas al-Tai, 46, who was eating suhoor with his family of six members of the "lifting of the curfew has had a tremendous impact ... life began suddenly."
Tai said a resident of the United States and who has chosen to return to his hometown with his family during the month of Ramadan, "there has been life now. Baghdad love life ... at night and out in itself a challenge to the violence. "
Ramadan nights
Although the apparent luxury in Jadiriyah does not extend to all parts of Baghdad, the nights of Ramadan hold their own in various parts of the capital.
In Sadr City, a poor Shiite neighborhood children riding bikes after dark and starts young men playing games in football while Mahabs men playing a traditional game performed by two teams, one looking for ring holds one of the opposing team members.
Most families do not have money allows them to eat suhoor abroad. Some assume fundraiser to provide food for the poor during the holy month.
In the upscale neighborhood west of the Tigris River Mall is packed with complex Mansour for cinemas with shoppers. After years of suffering from war and deprivation, the people of Baghdad learn to cherish moments of stability, even if they are fragile and fleeting.
The mother said Abbas al-Tai wife Maram "We were thirsty for such a good time. From 2003 to 2015 life almost entirely.
"I remember a time when I was small at the age of my daughters and I used to tell them about this time. Now Busahn to live this life. We thank God for that. We hope that this lasts mother. Ended (1
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