Layla Anwar

Layla is an Arab Iraqi woman who has blogged about the US/UK invasion of her country since 2006. She is a Sunni Muslim in her 40's who has lived in exile in Syria since 2008. This from the heading of her blog:

Who am I ? The eternal Question . Have not figured it out fully yet . All you need to know about me is that I am a Middle Easterner, an Arab Woman - into my 40's and old enough to know better. I have no homeland per se. I live in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Egypt simultaneously...All the rest is icing on the cake.

Uncomfortable reading

Layla Anwar's blog posts make uncomfortable reading for anyone whose perspective on the world is "Western". No matter you were among the millions who marched or otherwise protested against the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq, from her perspective your relatively comfortable western lifestyle renders you - to a greater or lesser extent - an enabler of the near total destruction of her country. And she has a point

See Also

• Vomiting Perfidy - Blog post on the occasion of Barack Obama's August 2010 "Mission Accomplished" speech.