The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family's Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation - Softcover

Al-Araji, Faiza; Raed Jarrar; Khalid Jarrar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971679509 ISBN 13: 9780971679504

Publisher: Second Chance Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Al-Araji, Faiza, Raed Jarrar, Khalid Jarrar

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Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer and worked as the executive manager for the family's water treatment firm in Baghdad. At the start of the war, she began working with local Iraqi non-governmental organizations to assist people with food and medicine. Due to the deterioration of the security situation in Iraq, Faiza moved to Amman, Jordan, in December, 2004 where she has continued her humanitarian activities by voluntarily organizing campaigns to collect funds to help Iraqi refugees with food and medical supplies. Faiza maintained two blogs during the war, The War Diary and A Family in Baghdad, on which parts of this book are based.

Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi political analyst currently based in Washington, DC. After the US led invasion, Jarrar returned to Iraq to become country director for CIVIC Worldwide, the only door to door casualty survey group in post war Iraq. He then established Emaar, (meaning 'reconstruction' in Arabic), a grassroots organization that coordinated with political leadership and civil society throughout Iraq in order to rebuild Iraqi civil society and physical infrastructure. On the environment, he worked as consultant and translator for UNEP Japan to preserve Iraqi marshlands. Back in the US, Jarrar canvassed door to door with California Peace Action to solicit support for an initiative urging Congress to outlaw the maintenance of permanent US military bases in Iraq. Most recently, Jarrar became the Iraq Consultant for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Washington, DC. Jarrar endeavors to advance discourse between Iraqi leaders and members of the US Congress. He is also a contributing writer and analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus and AlterNet.

Khalid Jarrar is a 25 year-old environmental engineer, who lived in Baghdad until he was forced to leave in July 2005. A media activist, he has worked with several non-governmental and media organizations since 2003. Khalid also maintains a blog, Tell Me A Secret, and has been hosted on major and small media outlets in interviews and political programs throughout the world. He has produced a series of documentaries about Iraq for the CBC, which were well-received by audiences. Khalid now lives in Amman, Jordan with his parents.

Edition details

• Publisher: Second Chance Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971679509
• ISBN 13: 9780971679504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166