Just read that according to data collected by Numbeo, that as of 2018, Erbil, a city in Iraq (and the main city of Kurdish Iraq, at that) ranks as one of the five safest cities in the world!
Just think of that!
And what is more, two more of the safest cities in the world, including the safest, Abu Dabhi, and the second safest, Doha in Qatar, are also in the Middle East!
And the area around Erbil in Iraq may be the most beautiful place on Earth!
Just think of that!
There is life, and hope, in the Middle East!
There is reason to believe!
Thank you, Lord! Amen, Halleluja!
David S. Annderson
P.S. I'm adding this to my history of the (mostly preindustrial) Persian and Islamic world right now!