Faiz Khalil shows off some of the guitars in his music shop in Baghdad. He has changed the name of the store to hide the fact that it is run by a Sunni. (Saad Khalaf / Los Angeles Times)
A Molotov cocktail was hurled through the window of Khalil’s shop last year. Items worth thousands of dollars were lost. (Saad Khalaf / Los Angeles Times)
Khalil tunes a guitar in his Baghdad music shop. The best thing he could find to say about life in Iraq now was that killers no longer ruled the streets. Maybe its temporary, he said. Maybe theyre committing other crimes now. But the killing is less. (Saad Khalaf / Los Angeles Times)
Khalil displays a traditional oud as he stands inside the charred room of his music store in Baghdad. (Saad Khalaf / Los Angeles Times)
