Raeid Jewad is a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, England. He has worked for Schlumberger Oilfield Services as a field engineer in Western Siberia, Germany, Scotland, and Offshore Gulf of Mexico in the USA.
After a twenty-three year exile, I returned to Iraq in June 2003. When filming a home video outside Baghdad museum, I was shot in the back by United States troops.
Tears of joy trickled down my cheeks as I watched Saddams statue come crashing down. Who could believe that such a moment would ever come? The whole day was