This is a video of Rana Alouiby, my translator and fixer. I don’t know when the video was shot but, as her English was much better during my visit, it must have been awhile ago. Or she’s playing a role here. I don’t know.
Rana is a contradictory character. She talks a lot about peace but is quick to condemn Iraqis who’ve worked with the Americans as collaborators and traitors. She describes a childhood of relative priviledge under the documented brutality of the Saddam regime, skirting the murderous excesses and focusing on the petrodollar fueled golden age of the 1970’s and early ’80s. I trusted her to help get me the story I needed but as for her underlying political values I’m not so sure.
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