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    Baghdad as I knew it in the sixties - Ibrahim Al-Allaf

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    Although I mentioned it, and wrote about it in my memoirs, which are currently being printed in (Dar Qandeel for Publishing and Distribution) in Baghdad  .   , tagged ( Jana Al Omar ) , but I found myself eager   to write about it more than once . And Baghdad I knew, when I was a student in the history department at the College of Education - University of Baghdad   between 1964-1964 .
    For the record, I visited her with my uncle Ghanem   , may God have mercy on him, a few years before that. And Baghdad, when I studied there, was a modern city, with a large number of   cinemas..Granada Al-Nasr, Atlas, tents, and there are amusement   parks and cabarets, especially in the pool area and among its amusement parks, as well as the auberge ( The Red Mill) and these nightclubs brought in foreign bands, and some of them performed shows of what was called (The Stripes). . And
    And there were theaters in Baghdad for several types of theaters, through which I saw many plays, and there are still performances   The Modern Artistic Theater Troupe,   including the plays “Al Bastouka” and “The Man Who Became a Dog” are in front of me. Like I'm watching it today.
    There was the central library of the University of Baghdad, and I, as my colleagues, had a special seat there . In front of the library was a famous tea seller. We used to go out of the library to drink tea with him. There were hotels Suitable for students, including Al-Mina Hotel, Haseeb Hotel, Al-Iman Hotel, Al-Jumhuriya Hotel and opposite Al-Jumhuriya Restaurant .
    My salary while I was a student in the boarding department was seven and a half dinars and it was enough for me with extra help from my grandfather May God have mercy on him, five dinars. I got it from the office of   my grandfather’s friend ,   Hajj Mahdi Al-Saleh Al-Azzawi   , on the street Al-Mustansir, my cousin Hani Ismail Al-Allaf, and he was a student at the College of Administration.
    Two merchants restaurant, was our destination as well as the Dar Al Talaba restaurant in which I used to live, especially when I became In the fourth stage, and before that in an apartment belonging to the honorable El-Azzawi in their building near the neighborhood Favor . And

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    There were foreign restaurants in Baghdad, and I remember the Italian restaurant and the French restaurant, and I remember (Brazilian Café)   on the street Al-Rasheed, and I remember Kit Kat for sweets in Bab Al Sharqi, and bookstores, including Al Muthanna Library   . And (Al-Nahda Library),   and ( Al-   Felfi Library), and I remember the buses   of the passenger transport service and the Baghdad train -   Mosul and discounts granted to students.
    I remember political life and its diversity. There were parties of different orientations and stripes,   and before 1968 I worked with the movement Arab socialism. And
    There were sports and social clubs in Baghdad, including the Al-Alawiya Club   . These clubs used to offer programs similar to those offered in New York, Cairo and Paris, with no difference. There were a number of shoe dyers spread in the main streets,   so elegance was required and we would only enter the college And our shoes (shining), we wear the best Goths, the best laces   , and the best shirts. I   bought the book   for two fils, including the second-hand one from Al-Mutanabbi Street. We used to go to mosques to pray, and there was no difference between a mosque and a Husseiniya. We did not know who the Sunni was. And who is the Shiite?  Who is the Christian, who is the Sabian, who is the Arab, who is the Kurd, who is the Turkmen, and who? He is Al-Shabki. By God, I went to Baghdad in 1964, and I do not know who the Shiite is and who I am From Mosul only once, I asked my grandmother, and she said, “We are Hanafis, meaning we follow Imam   Abu Hanifa al-Nu’man bin Thabit. ” We used to go to Kadhimiya as we used to go to Adhamiya, there was no difference, and we were wandering in a street Al-Rasheed and Al-Nahr Street (Al-Mustansir) and Al-Jumhuriya Street without any sergeant or accountability because we were committed Common morals and social norms.   Jabbar Abu al-Sharbat, Hobi, the seller of tea, Mr. Cakes, Haji Zabbalah's refreshments, and Abu Restaurant fat  , Abu Nawas Street, Al-Midan and Al-Jaafar Asmaa used to hesitate in front of us, and I was taking a shower in the popular Al-Fadl Hammam general.   Through the college, we used to take trips to the heart of Diyala and the Lighthouse of Malwiya in Samarra. The ruins of Babylon, the Ukhaidir Palace in Karbala, and the Kufa Mosque, young men and women, there is no difference There is a skirt,   progress, and evolution, and you know (the mini-job) and the   short dress that the female students and our poet wore. The late Muhammad Ali Al-Khafaji was a student with us, and he says in a book he issued: Make the dress shorter,   and leave the breast. The revolving dome is a dome that protrudes from it.......and we did not pay attention to what the house hides, and our teachers are our teachers   in Sociology  For example, the late Professor Dr. Hatem Al-Kaabi tells us about Freud, and about Marx for a year Kamla was studying us and speaking boldly.   Roles and galleries of plastic paintings (galleries),   and seminars for story, poetry, history,   philosophy and sociology, and the Union of Writers And the Association of Writers and Authors,   and cultural and intellectual magazines (Egyptian and Iraqi)   for two   fils, I mean cheap by a penny, and a penny Fils, museums, the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, the Museum of Weapons, associations, unions, professional federations   , and newspapers were varied. Nationalist ideas and policies, socialism,  Liberal, religious. We used to recite to Ali Jawad al-Tahir, Tohma Farman absent, Lathnoon Ayyub,   Ataka al-Khazraji and Badr Shakir . Al-Sayyab and Ahmad Abd al-Muti Hijazi, as we used to read by Taha Hussein, al-Akkad, Yusuf Idris, Ihsan Abd al-Quddus   , and Kafka Kamo, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Moravia   .. We hear Iraqi, Egyptian, Gulf and   foreign songs, and we read newspapers and magazines   all over the world. Baghdad .   cafes,   bars,  And places to shop, I mean stores, Orsadee Pak, parks, Baghdadi councils, literary, historical and political symbols. Baghdad was great in everything in its economy, in its culture, in its social harmony In its atmosphere, in its weather, in its openness, its liberalism and its preservation of values ​​.. in the control of its class Central over the economy, in the control of the people of Shorja on the nerve of life .. The poor knows that he is poor, The rich knows he is rich, and the average knows he is average. Do not jump, do not come,   do not extend. Iraqis are equal, and work is the criterion. This is Baghdad. Baghdadna, Baghdad, all Iraqis. Do you return to us and do we return to it as it was a pure, pure, civilized and developed city?  progressive?
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