GIRL BLOG FROM BAGDAD

I am an ardent blogger and have quite a few blogs posted in different web sites. I do not know why, but I do find the world of blogging extremely challenging. One goes to parts of the world one has only heard of, Bagdad for one. I read a particular blog form bagdad posted by a woman who calls herself riverbend, possibly she lives near the bend in the river Tigrios that flows through Bagdad. I have also been a keen advocate of peace in iraq and have done a lot of writing in my blogs on the atrocities of the US troops. However, I do not live in Iraq and my knowledge about what is happening in entirely from embedded journalists, whose reports are unvasrlnished American propaganda.

This brings me to riverbend. Her blogs are full of humour, not the dark black humour, but the humour that makes enduring the horrible nighmare of life in Bagdad bearable. She wries well, and I would even say that she is a stylish writer. There is no frenzied Yankee Get Out kind of reaction. She is much too educated for that. She records the sufferings of ordinary Iraqis who are outside the Green Zone who are trying to get by without losing their dignity and the compassion. I name RIVER BEND as the personality of the year who has brought the life in Bagdad within reach of people around the world.

I have read almost all her posts and have been touched by the simple and deliberrately understated manner in which she repotrs from the city of Bagdad.