Beschreibung
Between 2014 and 2017, the 'Islamic State' ruled the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, killing 'traitors', destroying books and oppressing women. But miraculously, in a park on the eastern edge of the Tigris, a zoo was kept open. It survived under the stern hand of Abu Laith, the zookeeper, a man with an interesting past and a lifelong animal lover. This is his story.