My Father’s Color Period “Tonight the film will be broadcast in color.” A rumor spread in 1979 that the state-owned television station would show a film in color despite the fact that most televisions were black and white. Unlike in cities with Arab inhabitants, the majority of the people in the Kurdish area of Iraq still didn’t have color TV sets. So my father decided to cut a sheet of colored cellophane and stick it on the screen of our TV at home. It stayed a whole week...