In the ten years since the US-led invasion, Iraqi society and culture has changed dramatically. In part two of Al Bawaba’s retrospective on the last decade , we look how society has responded to the invasion and the almost daily violence that has followed. From a continuing ‘brain drain’, leaving academia understaffed, to vicious attacks on the ‘emo’ community, killing up to a hundred people. As Iraq’s residents become more and more used to the violence, social problems have become endemic. But within the the murky depths of sectarian violence ...