Last fall as rhetoric heated up against Iran, I came across a blog, Life Goes On in Tehran which gives a personal glimpse into city life. I regularly check the award-winning anonymous blogger Riverbend who writes Baghdad Burning. She left her native country, Iraq, finally, going to Syria. I am saddened that she has not let us hear her voice. October 22 is her most recent post. It has been a long while since she posted last April when her family decided to leave Baghdad. Then nothing for months until September. She is now a refugee. She wrote on her September 7 post about her move, "Syria is the only country, other than Jordan, that was allowing people in without a visa. The Jordanians are being horrible with refugees. Families risk being turned back at the Jordanian border, or denied entry at Amman Airport. It’s too high a risk for most families." Last April when her family decided to leave she wrote, "I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere." Her voice and that of my brother-in-law who volunteered to go there, made the war personal.
I miss her writings.
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