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by lowpro 15 days ago
I drove through Iraq for a month in 2022. From Baghdad north to Erbil, then south to Fallujah and Najaf.

Men and women rarely interact, like many Muslim majority countries. It is odd for most people to talk to the other gender who is not their direct family. Found the stereotypes we have in the west of women were the same there but more exaggerated. A tough existence.