personal narratives, iraqi

Fifteen-year-old Hadiya reflects on family, friendship, and community while she blogs from her home in the city of Mosul, Iraq; and details it is like to live in a military occupied country between 2004 and 2009. Includes a time line.

The author, writing under a pseudonym, describes his experiences after being forced to join Saddam Hussein's army to fight against America in 2003, argues that life for the Iraqi people is no better since the fall of the Baathist government, and tells of his life after leaving the military.

Shant Kenderian recounts how, at the age of seventeen, he was forced to join Saddam Hussein's army and fight against his own country against his will.

Presents excerpts from the diary of Iraqi artist Nuha Al-Radi in which she chronicles events in her country and in exile from the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 to the start of the U.S. war on Iraq in 2003.