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This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Spurlock: Where's bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock, the guy who made Super Size Me, is coming out with a new movie called Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? He travels to Middle Eastern countries, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Afghanistan to show us a different side of Islam: the non-violent side. He was hoping to find Osama and try to show him that killing many people isn’t cool. A preview showed him in an Israeli classroom that a rocket hit hours earlier. He says that he couldn’t imagine raising his kid in such a dangerous place. The movie should be cool to watch, since he goes right into these dangerous places and gives us a more human perspective of the Middle East. Most of the news we get about that region involves huge amounts of violence and unrest, especially with our troops in two countries. It looks like Spurlock is helping us find out what’s going on besides the war, and how people over there feel about the fighting and the US. It’s something I would want to see, so that I can know more about those countries than what articles on CNN and news programs have to offer.

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