Written by Najma, which means ’star’ in Arabic, this is the the blog of an engineering university student living in Mosul in the north of Iraq.

A Star from Mosul is a well written blog which gives a vivid account both of daily life and customs of Iraqi people, and the reality of living in a country at war.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com

Riverbend gives a first hand account of life in Baghdad. It can be painful reading, as we see the effect the war is having on the daily lives of the Iraqi people. Updates are rare these days due to lack of electricity and other problems. The first year of her blog has been published as a book.