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Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq
Contributor(s): Riverbend (Author), Ridgeway, James (Introduction by), Casella, Jean (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1558615296     ISBN-13: 9781558615298
Publisher: Feminist Press
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2006
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Annotation: "Riverbend," the Iraqi woman whose "articulate, even poetic prose packs an emotional punch" "(The New York Times)," continues her dispatches from her native Baghdad. Interweaving commentary on major events since October 2004 with compelling stories, this is journalism from ground zero.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - Iraq War (2003-2011)
- History | Middle East - Iraq
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Dewey: 956.704
LCCN: 2007276726
Series: Women Writing the Middle East
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.56" W x 8.42" (0.61 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Riverbend, the young Iraqi woman whose "articulate, even poetic prose packs an emotional punch," continues her blog from her hometown of Baghdad (The New York Times).

Riverbend, the pseudonymous recipient of a Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Literary Reportage, continues her chronicle of daily life in occupied Baghdad. Drawn from her popular blog, this volume spans from October 2004 through March 2006.

In her distinctively wry yet urgent prose Riverbend, now 27, tells of life in a middle-class, secular, mixed Shia-Sunni family. She describes the attacks she sees on TV, raids in her neighborhood, fuel shortages, rolling blackouts, and water shortages, all while offering insightful critiques of the Iraqi draft constitution and American Media. Riverbend reveals how, for the first time in her life, she feels lesser due to her gender.

Dispelling reductive, media-driven stereotypes, she explains that most Iraqis are tolerant people, prefer secular to religious government, oppose a civil war, and desperately want the occupation to end.