Whoever we see tells us the bad news, simply because there is no good news. “Someone is killed, another is kidnapped, X was robbed, Y was beheaded, a roadside bomb went off, a car bomb exploded”… blablabla….

Hi.
It is too hard to be afraid from the unknown.
What will happen? what shall I do? What is the proper way to guarantee my kids’ future? to leave or to stay? Leave?! Where to?! Does leaving mean that I am an escapist or just a scared mammy?
This is how I keep wondering; thinking and asking [...]

And here for you reading pleasure is my latest Global Voices review of weblogs…
Iraqi bloggers pose something of puzzle for the mainstream media. The quality of the writing is good and bloggers sometimes have better news than their own reporters. But how do you use it? Some have the right idea and report what the [...]

Life for an Iraqi child may look grim now; but it has not always been this way. Mama’ tells of her childhood growing up in a booming Iraq.

It’s Mama’s birthday- and to show how dedicated iraqi mothers, particularly this one, truely are- here are some words from her daughter.

Need milk? Imagine having to beg every available man just to take you to the shop, in fear of your own life. Imagine when you don’t find one- going out alone as three women in Iraq. This is Miraj’s life.

“Had there been no good people, the world would have turned upside down” is an Iraqi phrase used at the end of morbid lists as a counterweight. Here Chikitita describes her neighbour- a man who surely fits this statement as a good man.

Imagine being stuck in the middle of a suburb where sectarian forces are coming on a raid to take away men of your kind, and all you can do is watch as your townsmen fight. The Kid tells his story.

Some would believe Iraq’s women are dressed much like their extremist islamic neighbours- full burka and gloves. This is not and never was true in Iraq, though as Baghdad Treasure explains it is heading in that direction.

Beautiful post about the kindness and familiar feelings between suffering Iraqi’s of all sects.