Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman
The paper deals with situating women in war trauma in Baghdad Burning Volume 2, a girl's blog from Iraq. In the current study, the researcher attempts to reveal the rising of fundamentalism in Iraq after the war. The objective of this study is to safeguard the rights and honour of women after traumatic experiences. The study explores whether the unlashed media is doing its duties truthfully or it dishonestly manipulates the facts about the Iraqi women's traumatic experiences. The paper exposes the reason behind the hiding of the true identity of the author, pseudo-named Riverbend. The framework for the study has been taken from an article "A Conceptual Framework for the Impact of Traumatic Experiences", written by Eve B Carlson and the co-author Constance Dalenberg. The study unfolds the reality that a traumatic event becomes a nightmare, especially for a woman, and a series of flashbacks to the same traumatic experience becomes recurrent. The paper concludes the living standards, disparities and situation of women in contemporary war-stricken Iraq.
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Fundamentalism, Unlashed Media, Traumatic Experiences
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(1) Qurat ul Ain
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Pakistan Studies, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Saima Anwar
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Shumaila Rafiq
Lecturer, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Ain, Q. u., Anwar, S., & Rafiq, S. (2021). Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman. Global Regional Review, VI(II), 73-79. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).10
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CHICAGO : Ain, Qurat ul, Saima Anwar, and Shumaila Rafiq. 2021. "Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman." Global Regional Review, VI (II): 73-79 doi: 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).10
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HARVARD : AIN, Q. U., ANWAR, S. & RAFIQ, S. 2021. Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman. Global Regional Review, VI, 73-79.
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MHRA : Ain, Qurat ul, Saima Anwar, and Shumaila Rafiq. 2021. "Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman." Global Regional Review, VI: 73-79
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MLA : Ain, Qurat ul, Saima Anwar, and Shumaila Rafiq. "Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman." Global Regional Review, VI.II (2021): 73-79 Print.
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OXFORD : Ain, Qurat ul, Anwar, Saima, and Rafiq, Shumaila (2021), "Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman", Global Regional Review, VI (II), 73-79
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TURABIAN : Ain, Qurat ul, Saima Anwar, and Shumaila Rafiq. "Situating Women in Trauma of War: An Analysis of Baghdad Burning: A Blog from an Iraqi Woman." Global Regional Review VI, no. II (2021): 73-79. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).10