Sun ,28.Sep.2003 Writing from Iraq Dear friends i have returned to baghdad for the first time since august 18th 1971 and i am writing this short message from a Kerrada internet cafe!!i am totally overcome with emotions and sentiments as i trace places of our childhood and youth. frank iny,malaab,souk el battaween,elmasbah etc etc . on friday night we celebrated rosh hashana with full traditional ceremony in a private house sitting on the Tarma(veranda) overlooking the tigris. we had loubia,kerrath,dates,pomegranetes etc and the ceremony was conducted by emad levy( the son of ezzat and the late sit saidah). i am staying for few more days and then returning to london . i wish you all a shana tova and tizku leshanim rabboth. i am hopeful that in the next few years many of you will go and visit our birthplace. a very emotional edwin shuker with love

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