The Most Blogged War…

November 23, 2006 - 6:02 PM by

A lengthy but fascinating article by Lisa on Israeli and Lebanese bloggers during the war is available here:

It opens like this:

On each of the first four nights of the latest Lebanon-Israel war I stayed up until dawn, chatting over the Internet with Charles Chuman, a Lebanese who then lived in Beirut. He sat on the roof of his apartment building, watching as missiles from Israeli Air Force planes fell on his city, and describing it to me in my Tel Aviv apartment, where I was watching the Israeli television news reports. Sometimes, between his descriptions of particularly loud or close explosions, our conversation was mildly flirtatious – me mock-moaning that I had no time to go the hairdresser because of work demands, he proclaiming, tongue-in-cheek, that he was wearing a pink shirt because he felt comfortable with his masculinity. Our last chat ended just a couple of hours before he left for Damascus, via roads that had been bombed by the IAF over the previous days. Almost as soon as he arrived in the Syrian capital, he logged on briefly to let me know he was safe.

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  1. Izzy Bee on Fri, Nov 24th 2006 6:56 PM

    2. You may find that statistically, the Iraq war has an even bigger share of bloggers because many more people are involved. Thousands of US and British soldiers, contractors, journalists, internal refugees, civilians and Iraqi students blog from bunkers in English. Not to mention Arabic blogs from “the street” or the madrassahs. Still, your electronic back-and-forth communication with an “enemy agent” is fascinating, all the more so for it being so close geographically. It brought all kinds of raw emotion up to the surface. This is the way understanding can be achieved. Bravo.

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