Baghdad was not the most obvious place to celebrate Passover.

Until the Second World War roughly a quarter of Baghdad's population was Jewish.

If you look carefully in parts of town that used to be Jewish, like Bataween, on the east bank of the Tigris, or around Rashid Street, a bustling commercial area, you can still see brickwork patterned into Stars of David. You can also see places where moulded stars have been hacked away.