Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expat | dG1fOUs0R2hUU2ZlT2M
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00:0050 years ago, nobody in our family could imagine that one day we would be scattered all over
00:13the world.
00:14When I was born, the world was neatly organized.
00:25Soon after, the revolution broke out.
00:27Those were exciting times.
00:30It was beginning to blossom.
00:31I think that the oil money began pouring in the country.
00:35Everybody was so happy.
00:36We are going to nationalize our oil.
00:38We will send people abroad to study and come back.
00:40We will have our friendship with the Soviets.
00:44My father really wanted me to go to England.
00:46I said, no, I will not go to the bloody bourgeois.
00:49I'm going to the Soviet Union.
00:53But this awakening ended in dictatorship and war after war.
01:02Everyday explosions and glass-splattering, so I decided to leave.
01:08Now I am almost 80.
01:11How can I return?
01:13With the situation in my country, how could I return?
01:21Religious fanatics, all the women in abayas, and underneath a headscarf too, and the arms
01:27covered to here, I don't know how they can bear the heat.
01:35I want to be part of the change over there.
01:38What am I doing here?
01:39Enough.
01:40Go back and be with them.
01:42Today, over 4 million Iraqi citizens live all over the world, over 4 million stories,
01:50and my family story is just one of them.