Salam Pax is in Australia at the moment, and I was fortunate enough to catch his interview on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope (the transcript is linked). A fascinating character and I have a new found respect for him. Anyway this from The OZ:
The Australian> Just five days after leaving Baghdad, Salam Pax has rushed from a television studio to an interview in the atrium of a glossy Sydney hotel. The whole thing seems a little surreal, he says. Salam Pax as he is now known the world over, is the 31-year Iraqi man whose weblog – or “blog” – provided the most immediate account of life during the war in Iraq. read more>