News at Eleven: Every day on Mutanabi Street,

a Hayawi sells books, educating a new contingent of lawyers, doctors and computer programmers.

The Hayawis stay in Iraq out of nostalgia, nationalism and a sense of tradition, as well as economic necessity. When U.S. troops withdraw someday, Iraq will depend on families like theirs to rebuild itself, physically and psychologically.

"Iraq is my soul," the bald, silver-bearded [Nabil al-]Hayawi said. "I go and come back. But I will never leave."

from The Washington Post: A Baghdad Bookseller, Bound to His Country
also The Washington Post: Keeping Literature Alive in Baghdad

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