'Suddenly women wanted to show me their bedrooms' Salam Pax, the Baghdad Blogger, was just a faceless observer. Then he was asked to make a film. But walking around with a camera, everything became very different...
Monday November 10, 2003
The Guardian
"Can you imagine the shock my family was in when I walked into our house in Baghdad with three bags full of filming equipment? I basically decided to go for an offensive, and ditch the apologetic approach. "Surprise! You are going to be on TV." My mum ran out of the room with a screech. "Ya Allah!" she said. "The boy has no shame."
"My brother gave me the are-you-insane? look accompanied by a certain finger. This was not exactly the reaction I had been hoping for. I was helped up to my room and left there to think about my actions alone.
"Too late, I had already decided to "expand". Anyone who has been following the weblog may have noticed that right after the war I started a photo-log, and guess what it says on the top? "Working my way towards Pax TV".
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1081513,00.htmlapparently his first report was broadcast this evening on the BBC . . .
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