HW: 27 Letter To Riverbend

From quickly skimming the book and reading the back cover, it seems as though the book Baghdad Burning is about a young girl from Iraq who blogs day to day about her experiences in Baghdad during the war. The author of the book, the young girl calls herself “Riverbend”. She often tells in her blogs of how she is an eyewitness to all of the things that go on in her town. She sees a lot of war going on and she tells the readers how she and her fellow citizens of Baghdad are affected by it. Her blog is not only about the personal things that happen to her during the war, but also the political aspects of it too. She describes how Iraqui women are treated differently and tells the reality of it all. This book would be used in my class because I am in a Blogging class, therefore I will get good information about how to blog from her entries and I will also become more educated about the war going on in Iraq.
“Baghdad Burning” is written by Riverbend. Foreword by Ahdof Soueif and Introduction by James Ridgeway. Printed in The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, NY in 2005.