The massive development projects the Iraqi government has planned for the city seem designed to wipe it clean of its past memories.

“I don’t like neutrality,” Marcel Ophuls wrote in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Father’s Son. “You can vote Green, Red, Pink, or Black. But never White. It’s in the life of nations, like in the life ...

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