this is where he worked as a child field market in iraq or his hometown in the northwest of the country traditionally many of the vendors here are arabs and many of their customers are jews. the bloody middle east conflict with its horrifying images seems far away from here that surprising since in the past after was the scene of so many wars greeks arabs crusaders and napoleon they all wanted to conquer the city. the verses arrived in one. hundred seventeen from nine hundred twenty on they governed palestine and offered both arabs and jews the prospect of their own state in the distant future. isn t grew up in the old town of up or close to the market. his family lived in two rooms in this house. his father ali owned