Arnon Grunberg

Iraqis

Electricity

With a security detail I traveled to the Red Zone i.e. everything in Baghdad that is not the Green Zone.
My security detail prevented me from having lunch in a restaurant on a busy street, but the meeting with the two Iraqis I was supposed to meet went well.
Most Iraqis I have met till now seem to be gregarious.
This afternoon I was told: “We Iraqis have one big dream: electricity.”