Here’s an article from a December issue of The Boston Sunday Globe. (Originally printed in the NYT.) Despite all the headlines that catch our eye (and that, well, appear in newspapers like the one I read this in), “There is a big gap between the people in the street and political elite…People in the street are not that interested in what happens in politics,” according to Maysoon al-Demluji, a former deputy minister of culture. That might be a bit of an overstatement, but she’s speaking at the Baghdad International Book Fair; her point is that this is the kind of place where “real life” in Iraq happens.