A love letter to the Kurdistan Region, from an American immigrant

Six years ago, I moved to Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq…To be honest, my decision was not about “what” brought me here — I simply knew. When I was a teenager, I had to take a history course to fulfill some lower-division requirements for my degree…On a whim, I chose a course on the history of writing in Mesopotamia. One day I went to class and suddenly it dawned on me: “This is my life.” There are some personal things - like the way I wake up and have tea and look out the window…there...