Saad Hussein, an Iraqi Yazidi, drinks Arak that he produces out of dates, on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq October 14, 2020. Picture taken October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Kawa Omar
BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) - Saad Hussein, a 42-year-old Yazidi Iraqi, is one of the last in the northern region of Nineveh producing the anise-flavoured spirit, arak, from local dates.
Forced to flee his home town of Bashiqa, close to Mosul, when it fell to Islamic State in 2014, he returned after the defeat and expulsion of the Islamic militants to reopen his small distillery.
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