Riverbend is the pseudonymous author of the blog Baghdad Burning, launched August 17, 2003. Riverbend’s identity is carefully hidden, but the weblog entries suggest that Riverbend is a young Iraqi woman from a mixed Shia and Sunni family, living with her parents and brother in Baghdad.
Before the United States occupation of Iraq she was a computer programmer. She writes in an idiomatic English with, as James Ridgeway notes in the introduction to to the Feminist Press edition of her work, “a slight American inflection.” The blog combines political statements with a large dose of Iraqi cultural information, such as the celebration of Ramadhan and examples of Iraqi cuisine. In March 2006, her website received the Bloggie award for Best Middle East and Africa blog.
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Riverbend’s blog was the first one I started reading regularly. She’s an excellent writer, and it really made me feel happy when I learned that she was able to escape Iraq with her family; she had a lengthy absence between April and September, and I feared the worst.
May Allah restore peace to the region and let our brothers and sisters return to their homes in safety.
Yeah, its amazing the way she can narrate the chaos and havoc around her. She’s like Anne Frank except her memoirs were broadcasted live.
I hope one day she can go public iA. Ameen to the dua.