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Riverbend is the pseudonymous author of the blog Baghdad Burning, launched August 17, 2003. Riverbend's identity is carefully hidden, but the weblog entries suggest that Riverbend is a young Iraqi woman from a mixed Shia and Sunni family, living with her parents and brother in Baghdad. Before the United States occupation of Iraq she was a computer programmer. She writes in an idiomatic English with, as James Ridgeway notes in the introduction to the Feminist Press edition of her work, "a slight American inflection." The blog combines political statements with a large dose of Iraqi cultural information, such as the celebration of Ramadhan and examples of Iraqi cuisine. In March 2006, her website received the Bloggie award for Best Middle Eas...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 428 ratings · 80 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend, Alia Mamdouh, James Ridgeway (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend, James Ridgeway (Introduction), Jean Casella (Introduction) 4.29 avg rating — 73 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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topics	posts	views	last activity
Middle East/North...: Baghdad Burning by Riverbend (July/September 2011)	151	28	Aug 31, 2011 07:06am
Bookish: * SF11 - Completed Tasks	304	78	Oct 31, 2011 09:03pm
The Feminist Read...: Group Read Nominations for Februar/March 2012	20	63	Feb 07, 2012 10:37am

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