Real estate prices have at least doubled as Iraqis with satchels full of cash buy apartments and villas by the fistful. Russian women serve drinks to Iraqi truck drivers crowding belly-dancing joints before making the dangerous journey back to Baghdad. Pausing from feeding her business cards through car windows at a street corner, a year-old prostitute named Siham delivers a lesson in microeconomics.
People were barely able to make ends meet there. In contrast is Sajida Abdul-Kadhim, 48, swathed in black and sitting cross-legged among rotting vegetables in a market, selling cheap cigarettes and lighters.
She left six children in Baghdad. Jordan has seen it all before. About , Lebanese sheltered there from a civil war that erupted in , triggering a short-lived boom. And it still has refugee camps filled with 1. Now the country of 5. Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister in the US approved Iraqi government, owns a multimillion-dollar villa. At Dead Sea and Red Sea beaches, Iraqis, Western contractors and military officials sit elbow-to-elbow on short vacations from the war.
Two predominantly Christian quarters of the city are flooded with Iraqi Christians who have fled the violence back home. Iraqis in the capital of 1.
Jordan clearly has been overwhelmed. It briefly tried to close government schools to Iraqi children, but backed down under pressure from the Iraqi government, and also revoked fines imposed on Iraqis who overstayed their visas. Published On 12 Oct 12 Oct Study in contrast Pausing from feeding her business cards through car windows at a street corner, a year-old prostitute named Siham delivers a lesson in microeconomics.
