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HW33 Baghdad Burning
By pianofanatic | April 2, 2008
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 2005.
(underlined: Baghdad…Iraq)
Baghdad Burning is a compilation of blogs by an anonymous Iraqi woman in her early twenties. She writes with true non-bias and an understandable logic regarding the war in Iraq. Her book was meant to vent her anger at the way the governments in both Iraq and America had gotten both countries at war with one another. As I was skimming through the book, I couldn’t help but look forward to reading what penname Riverbend has to say, the whole book of blogs looks fascinating! This book fits into the class I am taking because as this class is discussing the role of women’s voices in the digital revolution. Riverbend talks about how women’s rights are taken away bit by bit during the war until it is dangerous to go outside alone. She was just 24 when she wrote her first blog, but before the war she had an excellent job, not only for a woman but for anyone in Iraq. She was a very skilled worker who was university educated, but all that was taken from her. This collaboration is a real light into what life for an Iraqi family is like. Riverbend writes how Iraq is such an unknown for Americans who very well think that they all live in tents and herd sheep. The thought of an Iraqi owning a computer, TV and other modern equipment is a stretch, yet it is true. I suppose it is true that this book presents a one-sided argument against the war in Iraq, however anyone who is still in favor of the war needs to seriously re-think their life.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 6:49 am
Beautiful work here on the HW 33 annotated bibliography–keep up the good work!