In Baghdad, jackhammers and drills are forging a new skyline for the second-most populous city in the Arab world. Despite the fragility of the new Iraqi government and the ever-looming threat of war, glitzy apartment buildings and residential houses are going up everywhere. But average Iraqis can’t possibly afford to live in most of them, as Yasmine Mosimann reports from Baghdad.
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