Where is Raed? is the blog of Salam Pax, the pseudoname of a twenty year old from Iraq who has blogged about his life there during the rule of Saddam and through to the war. His diary has already been serialised by The Guardian newspaper and published in a book called Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog, and now it is set to be turned into a movie.

The news from The Guardian

Marc Evans, the director of films My Little Eye and Snowcake, will direct the film with a script from Ross Klavan, co-author of the Joel Schumacher film Tigerland...

...Mr Evans said: "Insider war stories are so often about the combatants. Salam's account is uniquely different. It is about what it's like to have war arrive on your doorstep. How he keeps his sense of humour throughout what he calls the 'liber-vasion' of Baghdad is a miracle in itself. Or maybe it's his sense of humour that allows him to keep his sanity. Either way, it makes for very inspiring material and a fantastic opportunity - and challenge - for us as film-makers."

I've heard of this blog before, and even read some of it during the war and it does open your eyes to what was happening in Iraq at the time and how actual people like you and I were affected. It could make for an extremely insightful film, or it could be used for propoganda...frankly I don't see that happening and it should give us that reality and insight that we would hope for.