There is in fact a river even if it was yet a branch of Tigris does pass by our house, it does cut the west coast of mosul & flows by our door step ;-).
We used to call it Al-Khusar, which is in fact an old river as a branch of Tigris from the time of Assyrians, but the modern expansion of Mosul, & exactly at the time of Ahmed H. Albaker our third president near seventies ordered that the rubble to be excavated & it banks to be build & to be well decorated, at that time you could see a beautiful drawing at the sides of the river palms, pigeons, cupid & my picture!!!(just joking ).
Near the nineties era at that time of the economic blockade, our government faded, our community broken,& the people turn savage looking for eat, at that time our subjacent building turned wrack , less attention paid for our river, so dirt & garbage at both side of the river accumulated, so the bank turned waste.
Now let's come to the bad news, at the top of one bank, that correspond to my house, at the same era, during the 30th assault on our country the general electricity sources was bombed, so people tried to provide them self with electricity by building electricity generators at several part of our quarter among these was that nightmare in front of my house.
Here is some side effect of this generator headache, insomnia, chronic anger & most important of these is that it did block the sight of river on me I really hate this generator.
Now let me tell you what Turkey did, it did block the water sources by building dams on them, so they reduced the level of water in our drainage & in my lovely river , now the banks seems dry as desert from the bridge up.
At last I want to share my lovely daily feeling, when I wake up daily & open my window on that lovely view of water flowing down there, its really a blessing thing that you live by one of Allah's wonder in this life even if it was humble as my river, really enjoyed writing this time see yah next time.
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