Salam Pax, is the voice of the internet generation in Iraq and could
even be considered the founder of Iraqi blogging. He has inspired and
encouraged many others, such as river band, a female blogger.
Salam started the first website "Where is Raed?" Raed is his friend
from Baghdad University¹s architecture school who moved to Amman in 2002.
Salam posted silly things for his friend at the beginning and then he started
to post about unspoken hardships of life in Iraq and how people were
preparing for the war. Once the war started he posted about how the Iraqis
struggled through electricity blackouts and the destruction of Baghdad.
Through his postings, Salam became an eyewitness blogger in Iraq,
documenting the war and after that, the 2004 U.S. political
conventions.
Salam's online diary has fascinated the web's myriad of users with its
sharp observations of day-to-day life in Iraq.
Salam Pax eventually became a columnist for the British Guardian
newspaper and published a book of his weblog posts. Salam Pax: The Clandestine
Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi.
It's very important to have Iraqi voices telling the world what is
going on,and Salam was just the beginning. And because of him, many other
bloggers have started to report about life in Iraq.
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Salem Pax is a fascinating guy. This is his blog "where is Raed?" Once your eyes acclimate to the colors used, its pretty interesting take on things that were going on in Iraq. he also has links to other blogs about Iraq as well. His last blog on this site is from 2004, I guess that's when he went big time.
I do find it interesting that he wrote (writes) in English. Do you (or anyone) know why that is? Has it been translated, or did he always write in English?
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