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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.
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.
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PRAISE FOR RIVERBEND AND BAGHDAD BURNING
Riverbend is a thoughtful writer whose articulate, even poetic, prose packs an emotional punch while exhibiting an eye for detail.
New York Times
The importance of Riverbends breathless, unedited, electronic first draft of history is clear: She is more of an expert on what its like to be young, female and Iraqi than the best journalist could ever hope to be.
The Washington Post
Passionate, frustrated, sarcastic, and sometimes hopeful. Riverbend is most compelling when she gives cultural object lessons on everything from the changing status of Iraqi women to Ramadan, the Iraqi educational system, the significance of date palms and the details of morning rituals. The blog offers quick takes on events from a perspective too often overlooked, ignored, or suppressed.
Publishers Weekly
In a voice that grips with drama and cuts to core with humor, Riverbend reports the personal side of war as no other account I know of does. Anyone who cares about the war in Iraq must read this book.
Susan Sarandon
Ive learned more about the occupation of Iraq from Riverbends blog than from just about any other news source. This 24-year-old Baghdad woman writes about everything from her house-proud neighbor, the Martha Stewart of Iraq, to the rising toll of kidnappings, murders, and attacks on unveiled women by the religious fanatics whose empowerment is one of the many unintended consequences of the American invasion. With spiritedness and even humor, she writes about daily life under siege and families under incredible stress. Every American should read this book.
Katha Pollitt
Her commanding gift for observation, her intelligence and her extraordinary language skills make her account of the life of an ordinary Iraqi family, which has been published in book form as Baghdad Burning, one of the most uniquely critical documents of life in this abused country under the conditions of the war and the US military occupation.
from the Citation for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage 2005
[Riverbend] comments on everything from the financing of reconstruction and the shenanigans at Halliburton to the feasibility of a Kurdish state and the impact of Islamic Sharia law on women. She also charts an ordinary lifeordinary, that is, in decidedly unordinary circumstances . Feisty and learned: first rate reading for any American who suspects that Fox News may not be telling the whole story.
Kirkus Reviews
[T]he blog attains its highest value as a unique voice that reveals to us the thoughts, reflections, personal life, politics and history of Iraq. What you get from [Riverbend] are candid, but cogently written, thoughts that come from her experience. She is not a theorist; she is a person trapped in a country that became a pawn in a geo-political power grab. Like most of us, she is an individual who is powerless to change the course of history, but she can trenchantly observe its passage.
BUZZFLASH Reviews
Her writing makes you feel at home in her world: you feel outraged when she describes the farcical reconstruction efforts, you fret when her cousin goes missing, you worry when she hasnt posted in a while. This document should be preserved as a part of history and shared with the less Internet-savvy. I wish it were required reading for every American.
BUST Magazine
Her descriptions of normal life in Iraq, including holiday customs and even recipes, extended families, and city neighborhoods, add a dimension to the war coverage that Western journalists have largely missed.
Library Journal (starred review)
In English that would put many Americans to shame, she chronicles daily life under the occupation, writing about water and electricity shortages with humor and exasperation, writing about violence with deep feeling. Riverbends take on politics is so perceptive that readers may wonder if she is actually a Beltway antiwar activistalthough such readers should also question their assumption that an Iraqi couldnt write this well or be so well informed. But the greatest accomplishment of this intriguing book lies in its essential ordinariness. 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 (featured review)
All is shrouded in the fog of war, and Riverbends need to make sense of the unrelenting savagery of life in harms way is poignant, touching, and universally compelling.
World Literature in Review
A cross between an underground manifesto and a polished cultural history. A highly educated bilingual Muslim woman with a deep hunger for media and plenty of time to engage with it, Riverbend infuses her writing with sophisticated analysis. With its blend if first-person mouthing off and spirited documentary style, Baghdad Burning offers fair and balanced coverage from inside one of the most rapidly changingand poorly understoodregions in the world.
Time Out New York
Wedged between cynical rants are posts that calmly enrich our understanding of what the war was like for Iraqis, both during and after.
San Francisco Chronicle
BAGHDAD BURNING IIMORE GIRL BLOG FROM IRAQ 
BY RIVERBEND
Introduction by
James Ridgeway and Jean Casella
James Ridgeway and Jean Casella
The Feminist Press
at the City University of New York
New York
at the City University of New York
New York
Published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
www.feministpress.org
First Feminist Press edition, 2006.
09080706987654321
Copyright 2006 by Riverbend
Introduction copyright 2006 by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella
Copyright information for excerpted material that appears in this volume appears on page
190 which constitutes a continuation of this copyright page.
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or used, stored in an information retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the first volume as follows:
Riverbend.
Baghdad burning : girl blog from Iraq / by Riverbend ; foreword by Ahdaf Souief ; introduction by James Ridgeway. 1st Feminist Press ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-55861-489-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Iraq War, 2003Weblogs. 2. Iraq War, 2003Personal narratives, Iraqi. 3. InsurgencyIraqWeblogs. 4. RiverbendWeblogs. 5. RiverbendDiaries. I. Title.
DS79.76.R587 2005
956.70443092dc22
2005000928
ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-529-8 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 1-55861-529-6 (pbk.)
Text design and composition by Lisa Force
Printed in Canada by Transcontinental Printing
Contents
Introduction
When Riverbend began writing her blog, Baghdad Burning, in August 2003, she introduced herself to her readers in just a few words: A little bit about myself: Im female, Iraqi, and 24. I survived the war. Thats all you need to know. Its all that matters these days anyway. From later postings, readers would learn that she belonged to a middle-class Baghdad family that was about half Shia and half Sunni; that she was a practicing Muslim; that she had been educated, in part, abroad; that she was a computer programmer (yes, yes a geek) who had lost her job after the war began.
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