soc.culture.iraq
Iraq, its people and its history.
Through sanctions, the 2003 invasion and the years after, soc.culture.iraq carried a conversation between exiles, expats and — as connectivity allowed — Iraqis at home, across Arabic, Kurdish and English.
The archive spans the whole arc: 1990s embargo hardship, invasion-eve fear and hope, and the sectarian years, argued in real time by people with family on the ground.
Reading soc.culture.iraq today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.iraq (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.