‘I went back to Baghdad a year after the Karada bombing’ | Iraq

“Explosion rocks central Baghdad,” read the headline, accompanied by an image showed blazing light and smoke billowing from the buildings of a crowded street. These were words I had read too often, and pictures I had seen repeatedly. I felt the headline weighing heavily on my heart. Yet, I took a deep breath and went to bed. Why did I choose to ignore it? Was I just avoiding the inevitable? Was