Promised jobs working in Kuwait or Jordan, Hundreds if not thousands of South Asians went to the Middle East following the invasion of Iraq - looking for safe work. Some are forced to work in Iraq itself. One of my favorite stories, for which I won VOA’s Cowan Award for Humanitarian Reporting. October 2004. I did not shoot the Iraq pix. (c) MPN The Hard Corps Writing Funny VOA-TV TUMBLR OTHER GIGS Home My Past