Thursday, April 16, 2009

Documentary on Baghdad by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Four part film by award winning Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad entitled "Baghdad:City of Walls". You can watch it all here on the Guardian website.

(Ghaith has a unique history, born Baghdad 1975, deserted from Saddam's army, lived on the DL for years in Iraq, emerged as a journalist after the invasion, won British Press Awards foreign reporter of the year 2008, shortlisted for a bunch of others, written for Wash Post NYTimes, Guardian.)

Intro from the Guardian:
In this unique four-part film, award-winning Guardian foreign correspondent, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi journalist and photographer, takes us back to his home city of Baghdad. In the week of the sixth anniversary of the US-led invasion, this film, made by GuardianFilms for the Arab news network Al Jazeera, gives an insider's view of the real impact of the invasion on Baghdad as it became 'The City of Walls'.

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