HW 27: Baghdad Burning Relevance to ITW-101

Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq. The Feminist Press, 2005.

This book was written by an anonymous blogger named Riverbend. She talks about what her life is like while living in Iraq during the war in Iraq that started with the invasion in 2003. This book has a lot of information about the war in Iraq but it also shows how people really live in Baghdad and what they have to suffer through. The benefits that are relevant in this book are things like the way she writes. It’s a lot more interesting and easy to follow as well as being informative and showing you what it would be like trying to live in a country that has been invaded and overrun. The challenges seem to be living in Iraq during this time and having to deal with the general knowledge about Iraq and how it may be frustrating. An example would be when she talks about how she doesn’t like that some people don’t believe she’s Iraqi because they’re so close minded that they think that Iraqis have no technology and don’t have the internet. These things are interesting to read about and this book seems like it will be an informative and intense read.