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Faiza al-Araji

Faiza Al-Araji, lives in Baghdad, Iraq with her husband and three sons. She has an engineering degree and worked as a manager of a water-treatment company. She maintains a regular blog of life amidst war, A Family in Baghdad, which includes Arabic-language lessons.

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America through an Iraqi lens

How wide is the gap between Americans and Iraqis? In the twelfth of our Letters to Americans series, Iraqi blogger and mother of three sons, Faiza Al-Araji, writes to Anthony Swofford, ex-US marine and author of the 1991 Gulf war memoir, “Jarhead”.

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