In the Karrada district of Iraq's capital, residents awake to a gas bottle deliveryman's dulcet tones – once a country-wide tradition, but now a solo act.
"My heart rediscovers love, as if it learnt nothing from past suffering," croons Mountazar Abbas, in homage to famous Iraqi singer Yass Khodr.
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