Three-time champion boxer Farouk Chanchoun Jawad trains youngsters to box instead of fight in Baghdad's notorious battleground neighborhood, Adhamiya.

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Iraqi boxer Farouk Chanchoun Jawad was three-times Champion of Asia and finished joint-fifth in the Men's Light-Welterweight division at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Today, Farouk trains youngsters in Baghdad's notourious Adhamiya neighbourhood. In recent years Adhamiya has become a battleground between US soldiers and Iraqi insurgents, as well as Sunni and Shia Iraqis. Each day Farouk must cross two US checkpoints just to reach his boxing academy.

Filmmaker Rashed Radwan brings us a film about getting young men to box instead of fight. It is also a compelling account of life in Baghdad's most dangerous district, seen through the eyes of its residents.

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