Janet Newenham visited Iraq for the first time in 2021 — and returned three months later with an all-female group.
Mandatory Credit:	Courtesy Janet Newenham via CNN Newsource

Janet Newenham visited Iraq for the first time in 2021 — and returned three months later with an all-female group.
Mandatory Credit: Courtesy Janet Newenham via CNN Newsource

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The Western tourists going to Iraq for vacation

As Tommy Driskill, a YouTuber from Hawaii who’s better known by his moniker, ‘Dude Abroad’, sat down for a traditional Iraqi breakfast of kahi and geymar (pastries and clotted cream) outside a hole-in-the-wall cafe in downtown Baghdad, he couldn’t help but think it was a surreal experience.