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Baghdad Burning by Ahdaf (FWD) Soueif, Riverbend (2005, Paperback) 
Baghdad Burning by Ahdaf (FWD) Soueif, Riverbend (2005, Paperback)

 
Baghdad Burning by Ahdaf (FWD) Soueif, Riverbend (2005, Paperback)

Publisher: Feminist Pr
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1558614893
ISBN-13: 9781558614895
Product ID: EPID52417535
Description: BAGHDAD BURNING is a collection of blogs entries that were first published under the pen name "Riverbend," who tells us only that she is "Iraqi, female, and 24." Riverbend identifies the issues that trouble the Iraqis most: lack of water...
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BAGHDAD BURNING is a collection of blogs entries that were first published under the pen name "Riverbend," who tells us only that she is "Iraqi, female, and 24." Riverbend identifies the issues that trouble the Iraqis most: lack of water, intermittent electricity, and intrusive, humiliating searches, all of which she and her family experienced directly. Reporting on the horrors of war, she condemns the many civilian deaths ("collateral damage" in military parlance) and laments the constant stress felt by people living in a war zone. She reminds us that once she had a normal life that included dating, attending college, and going to clubs.
Riverbend is clear that she sees the the American presence as an "occupation" rather than a "liberation." She heaps scorn on both Paul Bremer and on Ahmad Chalabi, yet she also expresses sympathy for the American soldiers and their struggle to live day-to-day under difficult conditions. When the news of Abu Ghraib breaks in May, 2004, she reports that the people are "seething with anger." Riverbend’s blogs have a compelling immediacy, and hers is the voice of Iraq’s future--a future she says she is unable to envision.

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Publication Date:2005-04-01

Size
Length:286 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:14.4 oz

Industry Reviews
"Feisty and learned...."
Kirkus (03/15/2005)

"..The greatest accomplishment of this intriguing book lies in its essential ordinariness....[Riverbend] provides an urgent reminder that, whichever governments we struggle under, we are all the same."
Booklist - Keir Graff (04/01/2005)

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