Baghdad Burning: A Young Woman’s Diary From A War Zone

In August 2003, a 25 year old Iraqi woman calling herself Riverbend provided eyewitness acounts of the bombings, kidnappings and night-time riads by US soldiers that constitute daily life in Baghdad. Her journal has gathered a worldwide audience hungry for news unfiltered by the mainstreamt media. Both personal and political, Riverbend writers of the impact on her family, of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, of how the rights of women are falling victim to emergent fundamenalisms.