Alive in Baghdad
Alive in Baghdad employed Iraqi journalists to produce video packages each week about a variety of topics on daily life in Iraq. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad showed the conflict through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brought testimony from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you.
Life, from Iraqis to You
In 2005 Small World News travelled to the Middle East for two months and spent three weeks in Baghdad. Initially Alive in Baghdad chronicled the voices of Iraqis, in order to provide a more intimate picture of Iraqi life. After a second trip to the Middle East in the summer of 2006, Alive in Baghdad provided video cameras, microphones, tapestock, and training to Iraqis living in Baghdad.
Those Iraqis produced a weekly news program from Baghdad, on topics ranging from protecting their families from death squads, to what it is like to be an Iraqi Police officer. The Iraqis were Omar Abdullah and Isam Rasheed working full-time, Qasem Al-Dulaimi producing some video and a regular text blog, as well as a number of other Iraqis collaborating on a currently ad-hoc basis.
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