Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq (2) (Women Writing The Middle East Ser.)

By: Riverbend

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Synopsis: Since the fall of Bagdad, women&’s voices have been largely erased, but four months after Saddam Hussein&’s statue fell, a 24 year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging. In 2003, a twenty-four-year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging about life in the city under the pseudonym Riverbend. Her passion, honesty, and wry idiomatic English made her work a vital contribution to our understanding of post-war Iraq—and won her a large following. Baghdad Burning is a quotidian chronicle of Riverbend&’s life with her family between April 2003 and September of 2004. She describes rolling blackouts, intermittent water access, daily explosions, gas shortages and travel restrictions. She also expresses a strong stance against the interim government, the Bush administration, and Islamic fundamentalists like Al Sadr and his followers. Her book &“offers quick takes on events as they occur, from a perspective too often overlooked, ignored or suppressed&” (Publishers Weekly). &“Riverbend is bright and opinionated, true, but like all voices of dissent worth remembering, she provides an urgent reminder that, whichever governments we struggle under, we are all the same.&” —Booklist &“Feisty and learned: first-rate reading for any American who suspects that Fox News may not be telling the whole story.&” —Kirkus