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After shedding IS, Mosul embraces makeovers
 [PULSE.NG] For three years, djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's women were covered in black from head to toe and its men had to keep their beards long. Salons were shut, and plastic surgery considered a crime. But more than a year after the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's ouster, the Iraqi city is flaunting its more fabulous side. Need to zap away a scar or a burn? Cover up a bald spot with implants? Whiten teeth for a dazzling smile? Mosul's plastic surgeons and beauticians are at your service. Raji Najib, a Syrian living in Mosul, recently made use of the city's aesthetic offerings. The 40-year-old had long been self-conscious of his bald spots, until his Iraqi friends told him what had worked for them -- hair implants at a new clinic in their hometown. "They told me the equipment was modern, the nurses competent and the prices good," Najib said. In Mosul, the average hair implant procedure costs around $800, including the follow-up after the operation. Nearly 90 kilometres (50 miles) to the east in Iraq's Arbil, or even further north in ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , the same operation costs at least $1,200. Plasma injections to prevent hair loss cost around $63 in Mosul, but at least $20 more in Arbil. In addition to the difference in price, Najib would have had to put up money and time for travel. "Going to a clinic in Mosul is much easier, as I don't have time to travel outside Mosul," he told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2018-12-19 |
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