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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.

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.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Postcolonial Iraq

The last time that someone wrote a blog on this site was March 18, 2007, where the author only posted to it once a month.

The author addresses such topics as
Many of the posts are just a few sentences, then it has written work by others pasted into the post. I feel that the author finds these other articles out on the web, and uses them in their blog so that they can create some type of conversation. However, I don't feel that the author is successful because many of the posts do not have comments.

The author's style of writing is very articulate and scholarly; Jelloul, the author of the posts, clearly has some opinion on the matter, but after reading what he had to say, I can't say that I'm certain what it is.

This blog left me confusing and wondering why Jelloul even wrote in it; at the very top of the blog is says that this blog is about "a postcolonial Iraq watch dedicated to genuine Iraqi self-determination; a post-fundamentalist and post-liberal watch for consociational patriotism and a confessionalism beyond religious as well as secular sectarianism." Honestly, I don't even understand what that means. This blog is defiantly meant for someone that follows both Iraq and is scholarly.

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