Al Jazeera English - Witness: Baghdad, City of Walls
Watch as award-winning photographer and journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad returns to his home streets of Baghdad to find a city divided by security walls, and filled with homeless people and improvised cemeteries.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist who grew up in Baghdad.
He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001, and when the war started two years later he reported for The Guardian newspaper before the growing violence forced him to flee.
In this film Ghaith returns to the streets of a Baghdad now divided by security walls separating Sunni and Shia. Thousands of homeless roam the streets, children grow up hating Americans, improvised cemeteries house the thousands of dead and there is electricity for only three hours a day.
Ghaith's ability to move around the city despite the dangers, gives us a unique insight into this Baghdad and to a story so far untold.
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About Al Jazeera - Witness
Rageh Omaar presents Witness, a half-hour daily documentary series which features short, specially commissioned or acquired films gathered from independent filmmakers.
Each documentary reveals the unknown lives of ordinary people, following their lives, telling their stories and portraying the challenges that confront them. Our witnesses are people in a situation or those who have observed them first hand.
The films cover conflict, belief, the past and the future and as well as bringing new stories to light they showcase the talents of a new breed of multi-skilled, frontline journalist. In the studio, Rageh will further explore the issues raised in the films, with expert guests on the subject matter and the filmmakers themselves.
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