Iraqi Insights

"I have an American passport and a Sunni name. It has been suggested to me not to dream of stepping a foot inside Baghdad for at least another fifty years. I haven't seen Baghad or Iraq since I was two years old."

so begins Mona, who is apparently interested in what You (myself included) have to say.

Iraqi Insights is an open forum for Iraqis of all generations and locations to gather and share perspectives.

Mona continues:
"The idea for this site is that I will post something...a question, a thought, a quote, an article, every now and then...and I hope to illicit your responses through the "comment" function.

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think.

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.

Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
-Michel Foucault"

So, welcome, Mona, to the Iraqi blogodrome, hope you enjoy your stay here with us, and.. i dont know what else to say!

for YOU readers, why dont you run along now and share your thoughts and opinion with everyone :)

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