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.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Healing Iraq

In this blog, many posts were mainly focused on the possibilities of future Iraq after the execution of their former dictator, Saddam Hussein. Most of the authors took a pessimistic approach towards their future expressed clearly in their posts. Many of them felt the future is a blur and the execution did not resolve the bloody civil war in Iraq. The authors had their own opinions that those who are for Saddam and those are against Saddam did not accept each other's differences and will only continue their battle using the death of Saddam as a catalyst. Many of the writers express their joy of the execution and their experience of freedom but still has a part in their heart that feels sad. They are glad that their lives under the regime of Saddam are over but still have grieve lingering in them. I can really feel the way they feel since they all live in Iraq, what they fear is an experience that I would never feel.

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