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Article: Hip, new Baghdad hangout is a byproduct of war.(WORLD)(Akkad Street)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 17, 2008
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Byline: Tom A. Peter
A group of four teenage boys sharing two mopeds buzz up and down Baghdad's trendy Akkad Street and covertly gawk at passing women.
Lined with hip restaurants, coffeehouses, and clothing stores - including the latest in Western and Islamic fashions - it is the place to be seen.
It's now the Iraqi teenagers' equivalent of the American mall.
Before the invasion, Akkad was a residential street without so much as a corner store. But along with a handful of other new commercial districts throughout Baghdad, Akkad Street was born of necessity.
When suicide bombers began targeting major markets, residents no ...
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