Hometown Baghdad

March 28, 2007

The other day on Twitter, Chris Pirillo posted a link to a video blog called “Hometown Baghdad”.

I’ve got to honest here; if the link had been “in the full”, I probably wouldn’t have clicked through - I would have reckoned on it being more mainstream-media-sanitised, “See it’s not all that bad, is it?” reporting but a) it was linked by Chris, and b) it was in TinyURL format. As it turned out, I clicked through into Episode 1, and was hooked.

Hometown Baghdad is an honest, no-frills, but all-too-brief glimpse into the everyday life of a group of everyday Iraqi twentysomethings who have had their lives interrupted by the war.

As with the previous episodes, the latest from Hometown Baghdad, “Symphony of Bullets“, is both moving and uplifting; moving because of the sense of what now passes for normal life in Baghdad; uplifting because despite the gunfire, humour still shines through.

I try not to blog about politics here - it’s too easy for things to dissolve into a “push me; shove you” argument - but maybe its time for the world’s media to pull out of Iraq, and let normal Iraqis tell their own stories. Perhaps one day, the coalition soldiers will simply have nothing left to do.In the meantime, if you subscribe to one new blog today, make it this one.

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