Her mural, when it's finished, will celebrate the humble tuk-tuk, the three wheeled scooter that is Iraq's most humble form of transport and has come to represent the uprising against a political ...

Dozens of tuk tuk drivers volunteered to help evacuate the injured, as well as to deliver water and food to protesters from people donating them. "The tuk tuk has become a symbol of the revolution.

JANE ARRAF, BYLINE: In Baghdad's Tahrir Square, Iraqi society has been turned upside down. Young men driving tuk-tuks, the three-wheeled vehicles driven and ridden in by the poor, have become heroes.

Reminiscent of Peter Pan's Lost Boys, the group radiated an intensity forged by bloodshed. Many come from Baghdad's poorest neighborhoods, where they work as tuk-tuk drivers or day laborers.