{"id":5244,"date":"2023-05-23T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:54:12","slug":"iraq-generation-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/05\/23\/iraq-generation-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Generation Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0fnvvn3\">BBC World Service, The Documentary Podcast, Iraq: Generation Invasion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recommend this programme. It shows the (literal) impact of the invasion on different sectors of Iraq society and the damage caused. Lest anyone forgets &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Twenty years after the US-led invasion, four young Iraqis recall life under foreign occupation and share their hopes and fears for the future. Shedding a light on post-Saddam Iraq are: 26-year-old Dima who rebelled against religious extremists in her native Basra and has rediscovered a love of singing; Bassam, an enthusiastic environmentalist helping re-green the city of Mosul; Ahmed, a Kurdish graduate struggling to make ends meet in a local barber shop; and Baraa, a female publisher, whose message to the world is \u201cIraqis need a second chance.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC World Service, The Documentary Podcast, Iraq: Generation Invasion I recommend this programme. It shows the (literal) impact of the invasion on different sectors of Iraq society and the damage caused. Lest anyone forgets &#8230; &#8220;Twenty years after the US-led invasion, four young Iraqis recall life under foreign occupation and share their hopes and fears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,490,491,200],"tags":[300,237],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-kurds","category-mosul","category-podcasts","tag-iraq","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}