Baghdad Burning
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
In August 2003 a young Iraqi blogger began reporting her experience as a civilian observer in Baghdad. Calling herself Riverbend, she has offered searing eyewitness accounts of daily life in the war zone and has garnered a worldwide audience hungry for unfiltered news and fresh analysis.Riverbend’s blog, Baghdad Burning, collected here for the first time, responds to events both personal and political – from the impact on her family of the invasion’s aftermath to the Abu Ghraib prison abuses. She reveals for us most sharply the fate of Iraqi women, whose rights and freedoms are falling victim to rising fundamentalisms.
Describing the reality of regime change in Iraq in a voice at turns outraged, witty, and deeply moving, Riverbend is a vital witness to the recent events that are shaping the future of her homeland.
Find my review in my blog (German only).
This book is part of my "1 year of my life = 1 country = 5 books"-Challenge (1st book for Iraq).
Takes part in my bookbox Die Wunder des Orient.
Has come full circle. But I know what to do with it ...
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Will travel with my BookBox Fremdes Leben - Tagebücher und (Auto-)Biographien.
Will travel with my BookBox Fremdes Leben - Tagebücher und (Auto-)Biographien.
I took the book from the box. I think it will be very interesting and look forward to reading.
04/28/2009:
Done reading now and I can´t say that I "enjoyed" the book. It´s really really interesting and absorbing but most of all it´s shocking. Of course you hear the news from Iraq every day but it´s completely different from a personal view. I would recommend reading to everybody.
04/28/2009:
Done reading now and I can´t say that I "enjoyed" the book. It´s really really interesting and absorbing but most of all it´s shocking. Of course you hear the news from Iraq every day but it´s completely different from a personal view. I would recommend reading to everybody.
I got the book from neschka some time ago and forgot to make a journal entry. Sorry!
10-July-2011:
When I started reading I thought I would not get very far as the book is 'outdated' by now. But it does not matter that the blog entries are from 2003 and 2004 as the insight into Iraqi culture and American occupation politics is very interesting and still up-to-date.
10-July-2011:
When I started reading I thought I would not get very far as the book is 'outdated' by now. But it does not matter that the blog entries are from 2003 and 2004 as the insight into Iraqi culture and American occupation politics is very interesting and still up-to-date.
Released at the BC barbecue in Gauting today.
a 'left-over' from the BC-barbeque :-)
Will have a look inside and then see where it'll go...
Will have a look inside and then see where it'll go...
Released 12 yrs ago (10/16/2011 UTC) at Bahnhof Gauting in Gauting, Bayern Germany
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Gegenüber vom Bahnhof auf einer Bank beim Blumenladen...
Gute Reise!
Gute Reise!
