New "Tweets from Tahir" Book Documents The Many Voices Of The Egyptian Revolution

In May of 2003, the British newspaper The Guardian was searching for a man by the name of Salem Pax. They knew nothing about him other than the information he’d revealed in his blog posts: he was twenty-nine-years-old, and lived in Baghdad. The newspaper was looking for Pax because they wanted to confirm that he was, indeed, the author of “Where is Raed?,” a blog site that provided a first-hand account of the invasions of Iraq.

The Guardian wanted to write a story on Pax, but what ended up happening would change the history of reportage: Pax, together with The Guardian, published Pax’s blog posts in a book under the title The Baghdad Blog.