﻿MODERN 
  LIFE 
  IN 
  THE 
  CRADLE 
  OF 
  CIVILIZATION 
  

  

  

  Photograph 
  by 
  Eric 
  Keast 
  Burke 
  

  

  A 
  PERSIAN 
  IN 
  BAGDAD 
  

  

  ||, 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  an 
  int< 
  ement 
  in 
  the 
  Mesopotamian 
  population. 
  In 
  Bagdad, 
  Persians 
  earn 
  a 
  livelihood 
  

  

  their 
  own 
  country. 
  From 
  earliest 
  times, 
  when 
  this 
  city 
  was 
  the 
  crossroads 
  of 
  the 
  Last, 
  

  

  people 
  have 
  been 
  familiar 
  sights 
  on 
  the 
  streets. 
  They 
  are 
  easily 
  identified 
  by 
  the 
  peculiar 
  hat. 
  like 
  a 
  bnmles 
  

   for 
  the 
  Arab 
  wears 
  a 
  head 
  scarf 
  and 
  the 
  Jews 
  and 
  Armenians 
  wear 
  the 
  tarbush 
  or 
  fez. 
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