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Baghdad burning : girl blog from Iraq by Mamdūḥ, ʻĀliyah;Theroux, Peter is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Baghdad burning : girl blog from Iraq about?

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-r

Author

Mamdūḥ, ʻĀliyah;Theroux, Peter

Publisher

New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558617124

Subjects

History, Islam, Fiction

Rating

4.07 / 5 (840 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13