Jordan
Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times
Hassan Jabr left his elegant home and garden and his job as a Spanish teacher in Baghdad after one of his sons was kidnapped and killed last year.
via NYTimes:
It is a painful new reality for an important part of Iraq’s population, the educated, secular center. They refused to take sides as the violence got worse. And their suffering augurs something larger for Iraq. The poorer they grow and the longer they stay away, the more crippled Iraq becomes. “The binding section of the population does not exist anymore,” said Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister, who now spends most of his time in Jordan. “The middle class has left Iraq.”
www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/world/middleeast/10refugees.html
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