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| Michael Totten on the "Dream City" of Kurdistan | |
| 2006-02-16 | |
| ERBIL, IRAQ – Kurdistan is a place of the mind. It doesn’t exist on any maps unless the maps are made by the Kurds. Southern Kurdistan is known to the rest of the world as Northern Iraq. Northern Kurdistan is described as Eastern Turkey. Southwestern Kurdistan is Northeastern Syria. And Southeastern Kurdistan is Northwestern Iran. In no country are Kurds closer to realizing their dream of freedom and independence than they are in Iraq. They are wrapping up the finishing touches on their de-facto sovereign state-within-a-state, a fact on the ground that will not easily be undone. And they’re transforming the hideously decrepit physical environment left to them by Saddam Hussein – a broken place that is terribly at odds with the Kurdistan in their hearts and in their minds – into something beautiful and inspiring, the kind of place you might like to live in someday yourself. The heart of the new Kurdistan is soon to be known as the Dream City, a massive construction site going up on the outskirts of Erbil. . . . Follow the link for photos. It looks like the kind of thing people build when they believe life is getting better.
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| Posted by:Mike |
#1 From the article:One already-completed house next to the Dream City is a dead-ringer for a house in the American suburbs.It looks a little more colorful than the typical tract. Bet it would go for well over a million here in Potomac. It came complete with a garage and even an oversized yard.The oversized yard part would make it somewhat of a rarity in most US 'burbs. Best of luck to them. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-02-16 09:23 |