HW 32 Living in Baghdad
Burning Bagdad is the blog of a young woman named Riverbend. Riverbend is described as a girl blog from Iraq in a very unique way. She is in her mid-twenties and lives in the middle-class section of Bahgdad with her mother, father, and brother. Before the war, she was an English writer. The reader is giving us insight to what her life was like and the hardship of what she had to go through. Her blog has been the most important source of news from Iraq because it is her was her way of life. The author then goes on to explain what happens with the WW1. We are told about the great politics that are discussed throughout the book and that the main purpose of the books is to give the minds set on one opinion about the Arab and Muslin people. When going into the introduction, a man named James Ridgeway begins to tell us about Riverbend and her blog. He also wrote about his opinion, in which he thought she was a unique person because of her background and the situation she came from. He discussed the events during the Gulf war in 1991 which lead to the way in 2003. Through out the introduction I have learned a lot about the war and most of it was very shocking to me.
