Riverbend is 26 years old and lives with her parents and siblings in Baghdad. She studied at the University of Baghdad and worked, until the start of the Iraq war, as a programmer and network expert for a small software company. She began to write her weblog soon after the war in Iraq was “officially” over.

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“A little bit about myself: I’m female, Iraqi and 24. I survived the war. That’s all you need to know. It’s all that matters these days anyway.” So begins Riverbend’s extraordinary blog, “Baghdad Burning” just a few months after the “end” of the Iraq war. Two years on, and now adapted into a book, the blog remains one of the most widely read accounts of post-Saddam Iraqi life.