Reading One Thousand and One Nights at Gubran's Home - Kirkuk, June 1960
June 1960 - Reading in One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) while on visit by my friend Gubran in Kirkuk. A moment of peace in a time of dangers and anxiety. During the early sixties many people of the left in Kirkuk were assassinated by thugs who operated in the name of Turcomans. Later, around 1961-1962 Gubran and his family moved to Baghdad. We met casually in Baghdad after I moved there in 1962. We lost contact after I left Iraq in 1968 to study in Germany.

Photo: Gubran