MetaFilter posts tagged with Iraq and Blog

Riverbend returns

the duck by the oboe — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:25:29 -0800

Baghdad Burning, a blog written by an Iraqi woman during the course of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, has had its first update since 2007.

We learned that you can be floating on a sea of oil, but your people can be destitute. Your city can be an open sewer; your women and children can be eating out of trash dumps and begging for money in foreign lands. We learned that justice does not prevail in this day and age. Innocent people are persecuted and executed daily. Some of them in courts, some of them in streets, and some of them in the private torture chambers. We are learning that corruption is the way to go. You want a passport issued? Pay someone. You want a document ratified? Pay someone. You want someone dead? Pay someone. We learned that it’s not that difficult to make billions disappear.

"Jesus Day" in Baghdad

ibmcginty — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:39:20 -0800

"Jesus Day" in Baghdad.

Blog from Iraq by an ex soldier

semmi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:30:28 -0800

Frontline Blogger covers war in Iraq with a soldier's eyes. First hand impressions, photos, and reports from a non journalist. A NYT write up.

The Long War

StrikeTheViol — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:09:02 -0800

The Long War Journal. Regardless of your politics, the aggregation of info is useful, and the chief blogger doesn't seem to have been mentioned on MeFi before.

A Soldier's Thoughts.

wander — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:52:02 -0800

While there have been many posts on Mefi of blogs written by those affected by the Iraq War, I have not seen this one posted. No matter your stance on the war, your opinion of American soldiers, or the amount of other Iraq war blogs you've read, all I ask is that you at least read these few entries. I've used too many words already, when the journal does more than enough to speak for itself. A Soldier's Thoughts. (via) [more inside]

"Democracy's Valiant Vulgarians" meet the great unwashed

ibmcginty — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:35:21 -0800

Time magazine recently launched a new politics blog, Swampland. The blog is, to this point, most interesting for its confrontations between the commenters and the bloggers. [m.i.]

"To get threat from unknown side whether al Jehad battalion or others!"

amberglow — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:13:46 -0800

“Oh, I took the roofs road" --just one of the fascinating things at a new Iraq blog--Inside Iraq-- daily life in a war zone through the words of Iraqi journalists in McClatchy's Baghdad Bureau as they risk so much each day to survive. These are unedited first hand accounts of their experiences. Their complete names have been withheld for security reasons.

The Sandbox

srboisvert — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:21:52 -0800

The Sandbox A Doonesbury driven non-partisan non-policy community blog on the details of being human in a global war on terror.

The Making of the Twenty-First-Century Soldier (Part 1)

kirkaracha — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:36:39 -0800

The Making of the Twenty-First-Century Soldier (Part 1) "In which a dope-smoking, valet-parking skateboarder living at home makes his way into the infantry, and into Iraq." By Colby Buzzell, author of the My War weblog we've discussed previously. The Army Times mentioned his blog in a recent article on weblogs by military personnel. Buzzell stopped posting personal accounts to the weblog after getting busted by the Army (Google caches are still available), but he's writing a book.

Wine. Is. Red!

Asparagirl — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:56:41 -0800

Drinking with Christopher Hitchens and the Iraqis Blogger Michael J. Totten recounts a night out with several angry Iraqis and one famous polemicist.

dbubble!

kliuless — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:59:09 -0800

?????? ????? - Name:Zena Amaar / Location:baghdad, Iraq
I am 13 years old. I am in the 2nd class in AL-MUTAMAYSAT secondary school whech means the secondary school for excellent student. I spend most of my time working on computer and reading stories, i have a library of about 75 books some of them are stories and the others are poetical books. Also i help my mother in housework. My father is a lucturer in the colleg of engineering. At the same time he is postgradute student. He is working hardly to get the PhD in computer engineering. My mother is assestant prof. in the colleg of engineering. I have only one brother. He is in the primary school in the 4th class. I love my family so much. (via sylloge :)

Raed in the Middle

planetkyoto — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:07:54 -0800

Where is Raed? Salam Pax's pal Raed Jarrar now has his own Blogspot site, Raed in the Middle, after some guest posts on Salam's blog. Foreboding political commentary (scroll down to "Three Smart Political Steps") on how AlSadr is making shrewd moves to unite Sunnis and Shi'as against American forces. In addition, Raed translates diary entries from his mother Faiza, who also Teaches you Arabic.

Publish And Be Saddamed. Bdum tshh.

Blue Stone — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 04:46:50 -0800

Salam Pax's book is published.

An American Soldier in Iraq

substrate — Sat, 12 Jul 2003 07:36:30 -0800

An American soldier maintains a weblog from Iraq. It contains details about his day to day life as a non-combat (and non-career) soldier during this conflict. Some people think he is an imposter, others think he's a dissident for using his voice in any manner other than as a Stars and Stripes reporter would. Thanks to I thought his weblog was interesting, including his responses to people's assertions that he isn't real or is somehow a dissident for using his voice. Thanks to Sensible Erection for the link.

Chief Wiggles

Baesen — Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:39:44 -0800

Chief Wiggles -- Straight from Iraq. Lost amid the writings of Salam Pax and Lt. Smash, a small voice, an author with a depth of feeling quietly leaves his words on the web for family and friends to read. His prose evoke feelings and draw you into his world of flies, heat and sand. A worthwhile read for all. (via Brain graze.)

Salam Pax is back

grahamwell — Wed, 07 May 2003 08:15:44 -0800

Salam Pax is back. It's been a long wait.

None dare call it blogging.

adamgreenfield — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:50:18 -0800

Superseding the mainstream media, or "quirky parasites"? Less of interest here than the IraqFilter context itself - which amounts to the question "Is blogging to Gulf II what TV was to Vietnam and cable was to Gulf I?" - is an established medium caught in the act of visibly sizing up this comer, this new kid on the block, this parvenu we know as "blogging." Is it a valid new medium of reportage, fit to take its place alongside print and broadcast? Or is it merely parasitic, interstitial, even marginal? Inquiring minds want to know. (Note O'Donnell's hedges and his final & bizarrely misplaced condescension: "Maybe Allbritton will start a trend - bloggers no longer dependent on the mainstream for their material." WTF?)

Where is Raed on NPR

mrbula — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:43:24 -0800

Dear Raed was the subject of a short piece (Windows Media file) on public radio's The World this evening.

national philistine

Peter H — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:32:56 -0800

national philistine is putting a very neccessary look at iraq and it's people - an american in iraq, the blog on the front page is one of the most humanizing things i've read in months.
.. part of the iraq peace team

H. Sarbakhshian in Iraq

hoder — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:02:33 -0800

H. Sarbakhshian is perhaps the only photo-blogger now in Iraqi kurdistan. He is one of the latest well-known Iranian journalists who has turned to blogging. (In Persian)

"Where is Raed?"

ubueditor — Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:43:26 -0800

"Where is Raed?" Here's a blog from Baghdad.