Dahr Jamail is a feature story staff writer and producer for the Human Rights Department of Al Jazeera English. Currently based in Doha, Qatar, Dahr has spent more than a year in Iraq, spread over a number of trips between 2003 and 2013.
For the last three months, I've been bound up inside -- my body walking the streets of my home country; my heart and mind still wandering war-ravaged Iraq.