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Salam Pax

The first time I heard the word for what I was doing, was in December 2002. Salam Pax is an Iraqi, telling his stories on Iraq. In a blog.
Journalists found out about him and suddenly he was worldfamous. (and with him the blogging era started. www.blogger.com crashed because of too many visitors on Salam's site)
Discussions whether he was real are not belong now to the past.
He is real, he gave the most (un)usual view on the war in Iraq, and I trusted it more than any CNN, Ina or even BBC-reports.

Salam is still alive. He is now a journalist. Thanks to his blog.

Amazing what he has to say to this:

"my life has taken a sharp turn towards the surreal.
it starts with this [The Baghdad Blog].
did you see the promo, it is so scary it freaked me out the first time I saw it. do turn up the volume, the track is by the Aphex Twin and when Intro contacted Warp records they said that they can choose any track they want by the Aphex Twin and it's for free. Warp even has the promo linked from its site.
Then there is the today show on BBC Radio 4 later followed by a web chat.
a radio interview with Late Night Live in *australia*.
A daily telegraph piece (needs registration).
A web page on the Guardian site.
A million other interviews by people who are nice enough to bring me books as presents.

Salam Pax has developed a life of his own, he is not me anymore. and I miss baghdad like hell.
:: salam 2:42 PM [+] :: "

Read it! It is far more intersting than what tele shows us every evening. He is supporting a democratic Iraq, but dares to have an opinion on what the American soldiers are doing.

--> dear_raed.blogspot.com

This is how journalism should be...

Posted on October 10, 2003
in Travels - Iraq

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