"Nero burned Rome and Nermine set my heart on fire": in uncrowded corners of Erbil, in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurds decided to declare their love on the walls, the last refuge in which to express his love in a conservative society. In an awkward handwriting with a spray of blue paint, one of them compares his beloved to the Roman Emperor having lost his mind.
Others, with a lot of hearts, celebrate the name of their love or the anniversary of their story. "I hope you will be my love for many more years, Ala Ziad", it is written, under a bridge, in cul-de-sac or near abandoned vacant lots of Erbil, capital of Kurdistan Iraqi torn between tradition and modernity.
Equally romantic but above all much more political, some graffiti speaks of the great regional cause: that of the Kurds in neighboring Syria, still torn by the war which has pushed thousands of them to settle in Iraqi Kurdistan. “In your eyes I see the whole world. It is as if I was in Damascus ”.
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