3- The Tigris mourned Baghdad when the Mongol leader, Hülagü, invaded the city and threw all the books and manuscripts into the river – the water turned the colour of ink. Now Baghdad mourns its Tigris, which has become a hostage to barbed wire. Neighbourhoods have emptied – their residents forced to flee for their lives. And the sky has turned grey and black. We are lost - between the grieving mothers – in streets where once we loved each other like brothers.