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| | BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis |
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http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_05.html
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| | The Salam Pax situation gets weirder Samizdata.net |
| | The writings of Gibson and Dick are about the muddiness, murkiness and complexity of the modern world, and the patterns that arise from that muddiness and murkiness. | | | And yet to make that commentary one thinks he would have to understand more than he actually does, and indeed understand more than it seems possible that anyone in Iraq could understand. | | | We now know that Salam Pax worked for a time as an interpreter for New York Times and Slate journalist Peter Maass. |
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http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/003587.html
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| | Paul Boutin : Q: Is the Baghdad Blogger for real? |
| | Salam posts his blog remotely using Blogger's editing software on a PC. | | | Salam hasn't given me one, but that's understandable. | | | IP addresses in his email headers aren't sufficient to pinpoint his location, but they're consistent with his story, being in the same range used by past Uruklink posters. |
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http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2003/03/20
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| | The Truth Laid Bear: Salam Pax: A Fine Whine |
| | Something we need to keep in mind about Salam is that he has spent half his life so far in Europe so he is as much European as he is Iraqi. | | | That's the difference, and that's why I read Zeyad and not Salam. | | | Salam Pax is, of course, a creature created almost entirely from the wispy regions of the blogosphere. |
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http://www.truthlaidbear.com/archives/2003/11/23/salam_pax_a_fine_whine.php
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| | Ciao!: Salam Pax is back! |
| | I'm sure anyone w/ creativity can come up w/ several other reasons why he might not be blogging. | | | And you don't need any permission to distribute a translated version of something that's already public domain on the internet. | | | Salam Pax's computer was damaged (or crashed) during the bombing and he can't update his blog. |
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http://www.centellas.org/miguel/archives/000198.html
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| | In bombed out Baghdad an angry voice resists - www.theage.com.au |
| | The diary of Salam Pax has gripped net users | | | The UN would make it worse — it would just add bureaucracy." | | | Salam’s first name is his own, but "Pax" is the pseudonym which once protected his life and now spares his blushes. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/21/1063625263142.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Salam's story |
| | Many thought the palindrome hinted that Salam Pax didn't exist, but was an agent of Iraqi or US intelligence. | | | Unable to post his diaries, Salam continued to write: "After eight months, it became a habit." Sometimes, when the generator was running, he used his computer. | | | Raed was at best an infrequent email correspondent and so Salam started writing up his news from home on a weblog, a site on the internet where he could post his scribblings as often as he liked for his friend to read. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,966819,00.html
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| | The Command Post - Iraq - Salam Pax Returns |
| | Button: Alan E Brain here (not the Alan who wrote the story). | | | Posted by: Alan E Brain at May 8, 2003 11:11 PM | | | Diane was Salam Pax's agent (for this post only), because Salam Pax still doesn't have an internet connection, only e-mail via satphone. |
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http://www.command-post.org/archives/006835.html
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| | Winds of Change.NET: Salam Pax: Zipper It! |
| | In that environment, simple measures that increase the difficulty can be effective. | | | Remember what these mentions do to Google rankings. | | | The rapid U.S. adsvance into Baghdad is probably the best possible news from Salam Pax's point of view, as Saddam's goons are now far more concerned with direct survival than anything else. |
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| | Reason |
| | He hasn't yet posted today, which means I and countless others will be compulsively checking his site (also mirrored at dearraed.blogspot.com) every few hours until he does. | | | Salam's veracity has been addressed by many bloggers; most helpful have been those with technical know-how or extensive e-mail contact with Salam. | | | Lately talk has turned to the question of whether Salam is who he says he is. |
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http://www.reason.com/links/links032503.shtml
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| | Where is Salam? MetaFilter |
| | Saying that Salam is "probably for real" seems to understate the evidence for his veracity, if anything. | | | Also, doesn't it strike anyone as convienient the value salam plays in drawing in the anti-war left (i.e. | | | They were open proxy servers that anyone who knew of their existence could have also used to relay mail. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25225
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| | Bryan Preston on Salam Pax on National Review Online |
| | The people he corresponded with could just as easily have been intel agents as Salam himself. | | | Salam Pax has been far too inconsistent and even petulant to have been an effective agent of influence. | | | If you run a Google search for "salam pax" yoghurt, it will turn up some posts circa January 2003, but do a word search on his site and "yoghurt" turns up no hits. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-preston052203.asp
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| | eIraq in the Press: Iraq's Net diarist Salam Pax is back |
| | WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- Salam Pax is back. | | | Salam Pax says he is glad to be hosted by them since in Iraq: "the guys at the Internet place wanted to charge 66,000 dinars for uploading 1.2MB of images, around $50 by today's rate. | | | Salam Pax's postwar reporting uses the same readable blend of direct observation and an appealing personal tone that made his war reports into a Net phenomenon, with over 3 million people around the world logging on to read his accounts of life under the bombing. |
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| | PaxAttack MetaFilter |
| | Which is to say maybe we can learn something even from human beings less perfectly formed and finished than David Warren, Charles Johnson and Roger Simon. | | | maybe this Salam Pax has just been reading Ender's Game too much. | | | Salam's dad works for OPEC because you say so? |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25826
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Leo Hickman: Who is the Iraqi blogger, Salam Pax? |
| | After all, why would he make it all up, especially for the long period before it even became the internet phenomenon it is today. | | | To start with, there is the mystery of his cryptic name. | | | It has been one of the most popular and debated questions on the internet for weeks. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,920505,00.html
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| | pointblog.com : Réponse de Salam Pax par e-mail |
| | J'ai reçu une réponse de Salam Pax par e-mail. | | | hi, i have been following the salam pax dialogue and like many am worried about him. | | | Salam Pax a répondu à toutes mes questions et dans le bon ordre, il ne s'agit nullement d'un FAQ. |
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| | Where is Raed ? |
| | My new computer background image says: "Re-examine every thought and concept you have". | | | Salam Pax kindly asks you to always check who is posting, Raed's brain de-rails sometimes. | | | Now if there only was a way to convince them to stop playing all that Bruce Springsteen and AC/DC and play us some B.R.M.C. and Rapture. |
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| | Amazon.com: Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi: Books: Salam Pax |
| | His genius brings us the gift of perspective and complexity in a situation reduced by American television to sound bytes and simple images. | | | I've been reading Salam's blog since before the war started, and continue to do so-- he is certainly no "ordinary Iraqi"-- His written English is better than 99% of Americans, his knowledge of Western popular culture is mind-boggling, and his snide digs at posturing of all kinds is world class. | | | Salam Pax's book (and indeed his blog too) are very interesting, exciting and funny. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802140440?v=glance
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| | Useful Fools: Salam Pax, Poor Baby |
| | Then we know where your loyalties are in the current war. | | | Salam implies that Americans are mean - they beat and kicked Salam's friend G (which if true needs to be investigated, because that is NOT American policy). | | | Hint, Salam, many Iraq's are too poor to afford air conditioning anyway. |
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| | Pax, pax christi eden prairie, 51 pax |
| | Get the best info on pax from 14 Search Engines in 1, including Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. | | | See an example of the records we have on PAX. | | | Michelin pax system Pax channel Pax roman Pax romana history Pax network Paz realty Pax global Faux pax Pax beale Pax et bonum |
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| | Salam Pax is still alive Perspectives CNET News.com |
| | I was planning to work up a piece on the significance of the next incarnation of Microsoft's Windows operating system (Note to editor: Let's move that one down the page.) | | | Readers who read Salam Pax is still alive also read... | | | The speculation ran the gamut of possibilities, always circling around to the likelihood that his dead body was lying crushed under a pile of rubble. |
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http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1000666.html
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| | The Machinery of Night |
| | Their tech reporter did some digging on Salam's email headers. | | | Said that Salam is a 29-year-old architect (which I didn't know, must not have read that post). | | | Many people have wondered whether he's for real, they said, but mentioned Diane's efforts to validate his identity (such as it is). |
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| | Salam Pax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He also worked as a journalist for The Guardian, writing both columns and featured articles. | | | Since then, nothing further by him has appeared in the paper. | | | Pax's site is titled after Pax's friend Raed Jarrar, who was working on his master's in Jordan: he didn't respond promptly to email, and so Pax set up the weblog for him to read. |
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| | Winds of Change.NET: Agent 00-Salam? |
| | In all the threads on Salam that I've reviewed I keep seeing posts from people who argue he is not an "intel agent" (actually he would probably be an "asset" not an agent) by citing factors that make him seem appealing to them, and thus not an "agent". | | | Cover is an agent's priority one, and Salam Pax has done a less than stellar job of that throughout. | | | MB has read Salam since WAY before he became popular, back almost at his few weeks. |
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| | There is no such thing as benign collectivism Samizdata.net |
| | We see Salam Pax as a bellweather symbol for countless millions of others, hence his importance to our continuing enquiry. | | | The only difference here is that he is blogging about what is on his mind and we can read it. | | | Posted by Byron at May 12, 2003 03:23 PM |
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| | :: salam pax 12:35 PM Real-Life (tm) by GOD Inc. is not the greatest software available. | | | Raed sent a long e-mail (that's more than 5 words) saying this is turning into a war-blog and he does not like that. | | | I have been listening to colplay's Politik non-stop since 9 AM. |
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| | Gay News From 365Gay.com |
| | Salam Pax has his detractors who believe he is actually an American or Israeli agent - and may not even be in Baghdad. | | | He calls himself Salam Pax, a nom de plume which means "peace" in Arabic and Latin. | | | have had all their windows broke, doors blown in and in one case a roof has caved in," Salam wrote in his journal. |
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| | Salam Pax-Ready for prime time. . .? |
| | I did write on the blog that Salam Pax seemed to have developed a life of his own, and I am not very sure where I fit into his scheme of things exactly. | | | Since the last couple of years of my life have been a continuous Salam and Raed Show, he was going to be filmed whether he liked it or not. | | | For them I was not just the one-eyed freak looking out from the corner of a newspaper, which is all that, until now, has been shown in the Guardian. |
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http://discuss.agonist.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=13630
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| | nickdenton.org: Dinner with Salam Pax |
| | Salam "do you know who my father is?" Pax is merely turning a blind eye to the ones his government has perpetrated, and using his Tariq Aziz like qualties to try to become a media sensation. | | | The hipster Iraqi (now outted as being, shockingly, chubby, which may hurt his ability to be accepted by New York media types who clearly want to make him one of their own) would certainly make better company than a scythe-wielding Shia fundamentalist. | | | But, just because he's someone that they can imagine hanging out with at WD-50 doesn't make him, as Nick Denton ludicrously suggested the "the Anne Frank of this conflict". |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Observer review: The Baghdad Blog by Salam Pax |
| | But Salam Pax (his real name is now known) is not an earnest campaigner. | | | If Salam Pax had been found by the intelligence service, he would have been imprisoned, probably tortured and possibly killed. | | | Salam Pax's slice of the war was posted, as the 'Baghdad Blog' on the internet. |
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| | 'Salam Pax' casts a wide net |
| | Salam, who writes in English, is the only resident of Iraq known to be filing accounts of the war directly to the web. | | | Salam Pax, a pseudonym crafted from the Arabic and Latin words for peace, came back on line on Monday after a two-day break because of interruptions in Internet access. | | | Washington - A mysterious Iraqi who calls himself Salam Pax, writing a web log from the heart of Baghdad, has developed a large internet following with his wry accounts of daily life in a city under US bombardment. |
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| | BW Online June 10, 2003 The Wild World of "Open-Source Media" |
| | Some, like Salam Pax's, feature mainly the writings of their creator. | | | Salam Pax is the most striking recent example of a brand of individual publishing that has lifted global social interaction to a new plane. | | | "We are now 15 people at 'Hotel Pax,'" he added, referring to his home in central Baghdad, where his family's generator kept the juice on. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2003/tc20030610_7159_tc104.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog: Books |
| | Written in English, in the form of a 'blog' (a form of web log/diary for those of you who haven't come across them yet - they've been a huge internet phenomenon over the last two years), these bulletins contained everything from musings on his CD collection to open criticisms of Saddam's regime. | | | Salam Pax risks his life criticising Saddam on the net. | | | These are really just letters published on the Internet so Pax's friend Raed in Jordan can read them. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843542625
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Election 2005 When George met Salam |
| | So we are not going to agree on this, which is why I didn't think it would be productive to have a discussion with you and I do have to go now." | | | Or he would have been if it had not been for Salam Pax. | | | Mr Pax "shouldn't have supported" the war in the first place, added Mr Galloway. |
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| | Radio 4 - The Today Programme - Webchat |
| | Listen to Salam Pax, as he talked to the Today Programme about his Web Blog. | | | Question: Can Salem Pax give his views of why, when there are so many highly qualified Iraquis who maintained the utilities through ten years of sanctions, that it has not been possible to maintain, apparantly a modicum of services. | | | Of course there are a lot of highly qualified Iraqis, but no one is asking them to help. |
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| | BBC NEWS Programmes Newsnight Baghdad blogger: 'Elections our only hope' |
| | Salam Pax - his real name has never been revealed - spent months writing an often bleakly humorous weblog detailing the fears and hardships of Iraqi citizens as they prepared for the conflict. | | | The "Baghdad blogger", as Salam Pax became known, also said the coalition had made a mistake by not making it clearer to the Iraqi people that they genuinely intended to help and then leave the country. | | | Salam Pax told the BBC's Newsnight programme: "Maybe, just maybe, once we have elections and we have a group of people who truly represent us all, this could be our ticket out of the mess we're in now." |
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| | Instapundit.com - |
| | But that doesn't mean that Salam Pax's screed was praiseworthy in the slightest. | | | I don't think he is, though I do think Bush I was wrong to leave Saddam in power in 1991, and I would add on my own part that Salam showed real courage in his blogging, if not the kind of courage that would (directly) overthrow the tyrant. | | | I know you’re the famous giggly blogger who gave us all a riveting view of the inner circle before the war, and thus know more about the situation than I do. |
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| | blog - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about blog |
| | Many large companies also use blogs for customer relations management, public relations, and brand development. | | | The blog created by an Iraqi blogger – known as ‘Salam Pax’ – during the Iraq War received widespread acclaim. | | | In turn, some mainstream print newspapers (such as The Guardian in the UK) added blogs to their Web sites. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Film Festival show for Baghdad Blogger |
| | The movie version comes in the form of a series of shorts made by Pax on a hand-held camera. | | | Following the fascination with the writing of Salam Pax - not his real name - he began a regular column in The Guardian newspaper and was given a crash course in documentary film-making. | | | The film has been directed by the man who calls himself Salam Pax, the author of the weblog about Iraqi life during and after the war. |
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| | New York Blade Online |
| | An architect by training, Salam, worked as a translator for an American journalist during the war. | | | He began his blog to keep in touch with his friend who had moved to Jordan to pursue a Master’s degree. | | | Juan Cole, a University of Michigan history professor who has been following the development of the new Iraqi constitution on his blog “Informed Comment” confirmed Salam’s concerns. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Film deal for 'Baghdad blogger' |
| | Salam Pax, whose real name has never been revealed, spent months writing an often bleakly humorous weblog which detailed the fears and hardships of Iraqi citizens. | | | Media group Intermedia is searching for a scriptwriter to adapt the book by the man, who calls himself Salam Pax. | | | The diary began as a way for the 29-year-old architectural student to keep in touch with his friend Raed in Jordan. |
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| | Blogger of Baghdad signs a movie deal - Books - www.smh.com.au |
| | Today, his dilemmas can be less confronting - such as choosing the right actor to play the lead in Salam Pax, the movie. | | | It is also the place to which he was confined in the brutal years of Saddam's reign, when going out to fraternise with foreigners or even friends could cost your life. | | | Salam Pax, who kept a now-published internet diary of events during the war in Iraq, in Sydney yesterday. |
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| | SF Gate: War On Iraq: War Blog: What's happened to Salam Pax this time? |
| | A top-notch blog on breaking technology news linked to the war by journalist Noah Shachtman: defensetech.org. | | | The Guardian was so captivated by the man who calls himself Salam Pax's vivid descriptions of life in Bagdhad during the months leading up to the war that it published extensive excerpts. | | | But if you have, you must also be wondering: What's happened to Salam Pax this time? |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2003/03/27/blog.DTL
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| | Nick Denton: My Name is Salam Pax |
| | No word yet on the advance but, given the competition for Salam's book, it must be well into the six figures. | | | Which would make Salam one of the richest men in Iraq -- if one excludes the local warlords and mullahs, that is. And they said no one would ever make money out of blogging. | | | I've just been passed a press release from Grove, saying they've bought the book rights to Salam Pax's diaries. |
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| | take one onion: Salam Pax - Dear Raed is back |
| | Salam is back, he has written a lot of stuff on his weblog, dear read. | | | He started on the 7th of May again, emailing a long document to a friend of his Diana, to post on blogger. | | | A collection of opinions, recipes, travel writing and photos plus thoughts on Apple, the internet and other things |
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| | News and jobs for journalists :: Pax puts blogging in context |
| | The interview with the Iraqi blogger, who uses the pseudonym Salam Pax, was originally broadcast as part of Zed's 'War and Remembrance' programme on November 11 2004. | | | He went on to say that Iranian students are providing a strong alternative voice online through their blogs. | | | Experienced B2B journalist sought with knowledge of pensions and investment issues...more |
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| | Electrolite: Salam Pax is real. |
| | The first instance should appear in, oh, 12 hours or so. | | | I am completely unsurprised that when Peter Maas first meets Pax, Salam is sitting in a hotel lobby reading Dick's _The Man in the High Castle_. | | | Indeed, in the better nation in whose early days we currently work, the museum diorama "Peter Maass Comes Across Salam Pax Sitting In a Baghdad Hotel Lobby Reading The Man In the High Castle" will be one of the most popular exhibits in the National Museum. |
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| | There is an article by freelance journalist Peter Maass in Slate about him discovering his interpreter was the world-famous blogger. | | | The Baghdad Blogger, Salam Pax, who also happens to be gay, now has a fortnightly column in the Guardian. | | | Posted by barry at June 6, 2003 12:12 AM |
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| | BBC NEWS Programmes Newsnight Baghdad Blogger |
| | The western focus is understandable, but many, many more Iraqis have died in the conflict, of course. | | | What they feel and felt during the war was communicated in its most idiosyncratic and unvarnished form by a man known as Salam Pax. | | | Yes, they've installed for me this and that and the sink and they installed another sink over there, these sort of things. |
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