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Girl Blog from Iraq

john baker, November 12th, 2007. One comment. Filed under blogging, politics, quotations.

After leaving Iraq behind, Bhagdad Burning turns her attention to her new home in Damascus, Syria, together with 1.5 million other Iraqi refugees:

The first evening we arrived, exhausted, dragging suitcases behind us, morale a little bit bruised, the Kurdish family sent over their representative – a 9 year old boy missing two front teeth, holding a lopsided cake, “We’re Abu Mohammed’s house- across from you- mama says if you need anything, just ask- this is our number. Abu Dalia’s family live upstairs, this is their number. We’re all Iraqi too… Welcome to the building.”

I cried that night because for the first time in a long time, so far away from home, I felt the unity that had been stolen from us in 2003.

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One Response to “Girl Blog from Iraq”

  1. cooper says:
    12th November 2007 at 7:05 pm

    You need to fix the link.
    I haven’t read River in some time. This was a nice reminder.

    jb says: Hi Cooper, I’ve fixed it. Thanks for telling me.