What is the importance of the Peace Conference? What do the Israelis hope to accomplish?

Why is there bad blood between Jacob Hausner and Ahmed Rish? How is it significant in the way Hausner handles the situation in Babylon?

How are the early lives of Jacob Hausner and Miriam Bernstein different? How does this affect the way they relate to each other as adults?

What is the reason that Ahmed Rish led the Concorde to the city of Babylon?

How is Miriam Bernstein changed by her time in Babylon? Did Jacob Hausner help or hurt her?

Why do the Iraqi Jews choose to stay in Ummah?

Why did Jacob Hausner choose to die in Babylon rather than escape with the others? How was his life changed by his time there? How did the relationship between Miriam Bernstein and Hausner change him?