Iraq’s last gas bottle delivery crooner dreams of stardom ...Middle East

BAGHDAD: In the Karrada district of Iraq’s capital, residents awake to a gas bottle delivery man’s dulcet tones — once a country-wide tradition, but now a solo act.“My heart rediscovers love, as if it learnt nothing from past suffering,“ croons Mountazar Abbas, in homage to famous Iraqi singer Yass Khodr.The 22-year-old is the last gas deliveryman in Baghdad to announce the arrival of his cylinder-laden rickshaw by singing.In doing so, he brings smiles to customers’ faces.“When people recognise my voice, they open the door of their home and shout out to me,“ Abbas told AFP. “Others call me on the phone — but they still ask me to sing.”Carrying on the trade of his father, Abbas has traversed

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