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Alive in Baghdad: Iraq Through the Eyes of Iraqis

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Posted on Dec 8, 2006

Founded by Brian Conley, a 26-year-old American journalist, and coordinated in Iraq by 21-year-old Iraqi Omar Abdullah, the website Alive in Baghdad features short films by Iraqis documenting daily life in their war-ravaged country. You must see this site. (BBC story, AiB site)

BBC:

The site offers a series of short films documenting the lives of Iraqis in their own words.

These range from a piece on family men trying to protect their neighbourhood from death squads, to an interview with car bomb survivors.

The founder of Alive in Baghdad is Brian Conley, a 26-year-old American journalist and film-maker.

He went to Baghdad and gave equipment and training to the small team of Iraqis who now produce a new short film every week.

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By Anna Catherine, December 8, 2006 at 8:10 pm Link to this comment
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To: Alive in Baghdad. If the Iraq Study Group report was made available to all Iraqi people to read, I wonder what they would want us to do?

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