| ID | 141407 |
| Title Proper | Barbarians at the gates |
| Other Title Information | a postcard from Erbil |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Clayfield, Matthew |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The car bomb sounded like a car backfiring. I heard it, dismissed it, and went back to sleep. It was only a few hours later, as I sat at the window of Erbil’s Hotel Merci, looking out over a two-story image of Leo Messi advertising Pepsi, that I realized how close I had been—too close for comfort—to the city’s first bombing in nearly a year. It had exploded only a few blocks away. |
| `In' analytical Note | World Affairs US Vol. 177, No.5; Jan/Feb 2015: p.24-36 |
| Journal Source | World Affairs US 2015-01 177, 5 |
| Key Words | PKK ; Barbarians ; Postcard ; Erbil ; Erbil’s Hotel Merci ; ISIS or ISIL ; YPG |