Anna Simonton, in interview with Andrew Birawi

Andrew Birawri was a senior in high school when American troops bombed his city, beginning the War, which would later become the Occupation, in Iraq. The next year Andrew enrolled at Baghdad’s University of Technology to study mechanical engineering. “At the time I didn’t know I would be leaving, so I decided to carry on with my education until it got worse for me and for my family.” That point came in 2006, when the violence in Baghdad made life too dangerous for Andrew’s family to continue living there.