Baghdad Burning

In Adda with Hala Fatima Siddiqui, Program Associate, WISCOMP. Tune in to listen to the stories of Riverbend, Iraqi blogger writing on war, politics and occupation in her blog titled as 'Baghdad Burning'. Weaving blogs as sources for alterities and counter-hegemonic representations, we reflect on precarity associated with lives of women in war-zones. Stay Tuned! Hala Fatima Siddiqui is Programme Associate at WISCOMP. Her research interests include the study of alternative war narratives, with a special focus on Iraq and the US waged ‘War on Terror’. Her MA thesis dealt with the study of Iraqi war blogs and the discussion of their alterity as sources of counter hegemonic representations of the Iraq War.