Welcome...and initial guidelines...

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.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Blog 8- Baghdad Burning

‘Bloggers Without Borders’

This blog is written by a girl who has escaped Iraq and is now living in Syria. There are a shitload of Iraqi refugees there. She talks about how when she first lived there she could not help but constantly look behind her back wherever she went in paranoia. She has a pretty innocent view on the world even after seeing atrocities. She is pretty positive about her family living in a small apartment in Syria now, but says that she feels like ‘just a number’ amongst all the other refugees. She is really brave for being in this situation. I feel really bad for her, she gets homesick often and cries. But she knows that her family is safe and that eventually, all will go back to an improved life for her and Iraqis.

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