17.	What do you perceive as the signs of success?
	Real success comes from work and being loved by the family. 

18.	What decorative or heirloom objects do you own?
	Shaimaa's house is decorated very simply. Koranik writings 
	on the wall, peaceful landscape paintings and a big poster of 
	the South Iraqi swamps. And of course, several portraits of our 
	president, Saddam Hussein, smoking a cigar on television, 
	illustrating the months of the calenders hung on the walls of 
	the bedroom and for the living rooms. Abed Ali's house is 
	decorated just as simply except a very few kitchen decorative 
	objects.

19.	Do you value new things or old things more? Why?
	We value more older things, because they are more original.  
	We also prefer to buy Iraqi goods. In any event, since the 
	embargo we don't have much choice. There are no foreign 
	goods in the shops. 

20.	What types of sacred objects are around the house?
	Pages of the Koran hung on the walls and a "Fatma's hand"

21.	Describe the kinds of clothing each family member owns.
	Mahdi is an old man who only wears long Arabic dresses and 
	an Arabic Muslim red and white scarf on his head, tied with a 
	black turban. This is all he owns.
	Shaimaa is the only one in the family who still wears the 
	traditional Islamic scarf covering her head and shoulders all 
	day. She is never without it. She has very few clothes, only 
	long dresses and a black chador that she wears every time she 
	leaves the house, even to visit the closest neighbor.
	Abed Ali sometimes wears his military uniform, but when he 
	goes to work he usually wears a casual suit. At home he wears 
	a long dress. Alia likes to wear skirts but never shows her 
	knees. She has 15 of them (which means that she still wears 
	the old ones). She never wears pants.
	Ahmad: wears a jogging suit almost every day.
	Hala: wears pants most of the time. She likes to wear very 
	casual clothes and wears her hair short.