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Violating Sanctions - An American Woman's Listening Tour through The Axis of Evil
On the Listening Tour Through the Axis of Evil, Kelly Hayes-Raitt will travel to countries threatened by America's foreign policies as she puts a human face on "the enemy."
Writer Kelly Hayes-Raitt is traveling to Syria to work with the Iraqi women in the refugee camps for 3 months this summer.
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from your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com. On the Listening Tour Through the Axis of Evil, Kelly Hayes-Raitt will travel to countries threatened by America's foreign policies as... more -
The Party After the War
In the largest exodus in six decades, at least five million Iraqis—twenty percent of Iraq's pre-war population—have fled their homes since the United States and its allies invaded the country in 2003. The Party After the War spends an afternoon with the family of a former Baghdad restaurateur that now lives in Amman, Jordan and runs an under-the-table catering business there.
The Party After the War is an excerpt of a feature film that chronicles the lives of several Iraqi refugees of various religious, sectarian and socioeconomic backgrounds who are now living as illegal immigrants in Syria and Jordan. The film will be released in early 2009.
In the largest exodus in six decades, at least five million Iraqis—twenty percent of Iraq's pre-war population—have fled their homes s... more -
Not Open to Interpretation - An Iraqi interpreter for the US ARMY tells her story
If you were a college student at a university in Baghdad when the US-led invasion began, the job prospects upon graduating were not too hot. Many Iraqis took jobs as interpreters with the US forces; putting their lives, and those of their families at risk.
A departure from the typical media coverage of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," this pod tells the gut-wrenching story of a young Iraqi's struggle to make ends meet and stay alive. Eventually forced to flee the only home she had ever known, she set sights on a life in the US. But, what she didn't realize was once she left Iraq, the struggle would not soon be over.
She is one, but her story represents many. If you were a college student at a university in Baghdad when the US-led invasion began, the job prospects upon graduating were not to... more -
Iraqi govt inflating numbers of returning refugees
Now, I hate to poke a pin in any hope-balloons coming out of Iraq, but I have to say reports last week about a significant number of Iraqi refugees returning to their homeland *did* strike me as odd. Now, I hate to poke a pin in any hope-balloons coming out of Iraq, but I have to say reports last week about a significant number of I... more
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Lecture at UCLA on Convergence
using my pod and Andrew's peep.
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Current TV Convergence Lecture, UCLA, October 31, 2007
Today I lectured about internet/tv convergence in an undergraduate class in the Information Studies department at UCLA. I showed my pod Secular Iraqi Refugees and followed it up with the 'peep' Andrew did on how my Iraqi friends posted messages on Current.com. I did this to illustrate how anthropology or citizen journalism is changing in the age of convergence and the Current-led democratizing of new media.
There were 30 students in the class, two people actually watched Current (one was Adam Chapman's sister, Amy, apparently an employee of Current)... Today I lectured about internet/tv convergence in an undergraduate class in the Information Studies department at UCLA. I showed my po... more -
Secular Iraqi Refugees
Secular Iraqi refugees in Cyprus discuss the rise of Islamic extremism after the 2003 US-led invasion.
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Iraqi refugees give Current props
These Iraqi Refugees had reached out to many, many other media outlets before VC2 producer Adam Fish found them in Cyprus. Be on the look out for a pod about their struggles as refugees from their country. These Iraqi Refugees had reached out to many, many other media outlets before VC2 producer Adam Fish found them in Cyprus. Be on the l... more
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