Word: mutanabi
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Baghdad's street markets offer everything from guns to plugs. A bookstall on Mutanabi Street carries a Hebrew-Arabic dictionary alongside volumes of Thomas Hardy, classical Arabic poetry and medical textbooks. Also selling like bread are DVDs of a documentary called "Saddam's Crimes." The street markets are also a good place to buy gasoline - the dealer sticks a hose in his can, takes a quick suck on the other end to start the flow, and hastily plugs that end into the buyer's can. Going to the gas station could mean an all-day wait...
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