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IRAQ – In Iraq’s Mosul, wholesale market revives trade legacy (Al-Monitor)

al-monitor An Iraqi man (L) buys goods at a shop at the “Al-Bursa” wholesale market in the northern city of Mosul Photo by Zaid AL-OBEIDI/AFP Photo.

Mountains of kitchen supplies, back-to-back butchers: the historic wholesale market in Iraq’s Mosul is battling the odds — from extremists to epidemic — to revive the city’s reputation as a trading hub.

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/afp/2020/12/iraq-conflict-economy-market.html