What's Happening (really)
The View From Iraq

more of the interviews and photos from August's Chronogram Magazine

Bourzou Daragahi • James Longley • Chris Hedges • Photos

Yasmin Alani

Yasmin Alani is a 35 year-old Iraqi American who lives in New England with
her husband and kids. In March, she began sending emails to friends informing
them about how her family in Baghdad were faring and expressing outrage over, as
she put it, "what is really happening in Iraq." Soon requests began pouring
in asking for permission to distribute these emails. Today, people all over the
world are reading her real life accounts, gleaned from her viewing 10
Arabic-speaking satellite TV channels and phone calls with her family in Baghdad.
Alani’s father-in-law died two weeks into the bombing. Her father, a much-beloved
surgeon in Baghdad, died in late May. You can read her letters at:
www.thefourreasons.org/yasmin.htm