HW 27: Baghdad Burning Intro

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning. New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005. This book is perfect for the Blog of One’s Own course because it shows how technology and blogs in particular can empower women all over the world. The author is a 24-year-old female Iraqi that survived the invasion of Iraq. She refers to her self as Riverbend and does not reveal her real name. She begins her own blog as a way to vent and with out realizing it, her blog becomes much more. Riverbend gives an ethical and political view of inside of Iraq that is impossible to see here in the United States. Women in Iraq are oppressed by fundamentalist making this book that much more powerful. The benefits are endless; the biggest is helping educate Americans about the Middle East. As she mentions in her second post most Americans are ignorant and believe that no Iraqi’s can speak English or have any kind of Internet access. This book can help break down cultural borders. Challenges that are presented are the detail to names, places, and religion In order to follow with the blogging you must know what is going on over in Iraq.