Cross Posted from Global Voices Online…
There is a new government and this historic event has raised more than a ripple in the Iraqi blogs, but, actually, not much more than that. And in this week snapshot of life in Iraq blogs I will show what has been diverting bloggers attention. From high jinks to the [...]

Have you seen how the herd of the surviving animals of zebra, gazelle or Buffalo act when one of the predators like Leopard hunt down one of them and start eating it in front of them?
The rest of the herd look so stupid when they stare from distance at their friend struggling in its [...]

Hello
Last day I arrived at my work an hour and a half late because of the very crowded road near the gate’s check point… An old woman and a 10 years old boy with a school bag on his back were waiting for me.
I treated the old lady first and then asked the boy to [...]

Hello friends, few weeks ago charley ( one of my blog readers) asked me some questions about my kids upbringing, finally I found time to answer them and Sunshine interfered and answered them too…
Q1 Charley: I read Sunshine’s blog and am amazed at what an exceptional child she is. I’d like to know how she [...]

Cross Posted from Global Voices Online
…almost literally (I’m plane-blogging again).
I thought about this again and again and there is no other way to describe what passes for government in Iraq. Today I give you some snapshots of a failed state. And this is the subject that dominates the Iraqi blogs.
If you read only one blog [...]

Life in Iraq has become like the type of life I have once read in a Lebanese novel titled ‘Jasmine Tree’. With my teenage naïveté, nine years back, Jasmine Tree sounded, in a way, like one of those sappy romantic novels that usually have bitter ends. Only it wasn’t. Nine years ago my heart ruptured [...]

And I see no bravery,No bravery in your eyes anymore.Only sadness.
I normally do not post videos - but this one struck me by the effect that it had on even the most hardened Iraqis around me. A sort of stunned silence.
So, as I say if you watch no other Flash animation today watch this one.

(Cross Posted from Global Voices Online)
…almost literally. I am completing this post in an airplane somewhere over Turkey and Iran. If I look out of my window I can point to an area of the darkness outside that might be Iraq. Worth the delay just so that I can say this!
This week I have new [...]

Who is Adam without Eve?
He’s a star without a light,
or a day without a night.
He’s a groom without a bride,
he’s a prince who’s short on pride;
He fought so hard to get her,
then pretends and just neglects her.
He’s like a child without a mother;
or like Romeo without a lover.
He’s a king with out a kingdom,
an old [...]

It just hit me that I don’t see Baghdad anymore. I mean the real Baghdad. You know, you hear about the destruction and security deterioration and see it in Baghdad [that’s where I live.] but when it comes very close to you, it is different. I used to drive up to 90 miles/per hour on [...]