TV’s For Sale

Jamie Francis

St. Petersburg Times

Ibrahim Al-Shalami, 32, waits for customers who rarely arrive in Basra, Iraq. The veteran, who fought on the front lines during the Iran and the Gulf War, has 13 used models for sale, nine of them working and tuned to the only station. Such is life after ten years of sanctions.

Jamie Francis, "TV’s For Sale," in POYi Archive, Item #30747, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/30747 (accessed June 9, 2025).