Salam Pax
Auteur van Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi
Over de Auteur
Salam Pax is currently living in Baghdad and is writing weekly syndicated articles for London's The Guardian newspaper
Fotografie: Facebook profile photo.
Werken van Salam Pax
Salam Pax 8 exemplaren
Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog 3 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Pax, Salam
- Officiƫle naam
- al-Janabi, Salam
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Pax, Salam
Abdulmunem, Salam - Geboortedatum
- 1973
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Iraq
- Geboorteplaats
- Bagdad, Iraq
- Opleiding
- University of Baghdad (Architecture)
City University London (Journalism)
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- 4
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- 236
- Populariteit
- #95,935
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 11
- Talen
- 6
The book was interesting purely from a sociological standpoint as you see how the knowledge that your country is going to be bombed at any moment and how that affects your everyday life and, more bizarrely how it doesn't affect your life. There are some dark moments stated in passing about seeing a man on the street without a leg after the grenade he was carrying went off, or how someone couldn't go out because there was part of a dead person on their lawn but these are balanced by lighter moments as well.
In my opinion it's not great but it's insightful and it's a wonderful thing to see how the world has moved on where, even in the middle of a warzone, we can still get internet coverage of what's going on. A blurb on the front cover says that it's similar to Anne Frank - I don't agree with it. With Anne Frank's diary we had an emotional connection with her and it was the little details - the complaining, the angst, the spoiled tantrums that we were never meant to see because they were in her diary that made her story so heartbreaking. Pax admits that people reading his blog, designed for public consumption, don't really know him - they see the side of him that he wants to portray and that's fine. Maybe that's the modernity of things - more facts, more access but less emotive.
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