Greet­ings all. It’s been a while. I wanted to take a small post and update you all on what’s hap­pen­ing here.

As many of you know, for the past few months, I’ve been at Stan­ford as a “Knight Fellow”:http://knight.stanford.edu/, research­ing for­eign news and online con­tent. This fel­low­ship ends in June. I have decided to depart the Mid­dle East then and head for Pak­istan, where I will be work­ing on a new blog project, “InsurgencyWatch”:http://www.insurgencywatch.com/. You can read more about the idea behind the new site “here”:http://www.insurgencywatch.com/about/. You can also catch its lat­est posts via the RSS feed to the right.

Back to Iraq will con­tinue to exist, but mainly as an archive and repub­lish­ing site for the new con­tent on Insur­gen­cy­Watch. I hope you’ll all join me over at the new site, and we can make inter­est­ing things hap­pen again in the field of for­eign correspondence.

There’s a new batch of soft­ware in town: [Mov­able­Type 4](http://www.movabletype.org). So far, it’s very nice and in honor of the cleaned up code and new func­tion­al­ity, I’ll be chang­ing Back to Iraq’s look and feel. This will be the third or fourth iter­a­tion of B2I through the years and it’s become a bit of a tra­di­tion for me to shake things up and try to make read­ing the site a pleas­ant and use­ful expe­ri­ence for you. So please bear with me while the work continues.

Thank you,
The Management

My first col­umn for Spot​-on​.com, a syn­di­ca­tion site, is avail­able. I’ll be writ­ing about — what else? — Beirut and the wider Mid­dle East. I hope you guys enjoy it!

Hello all– I just wanted to remind y’all that I now do the U.S. media roundup/critique for IraqS​log​ger​.com. Today’s offer­ing has reports on Marines’ spin from Haditha and a depressing/charming story about a rooftop pool in Bagh­dad.
Please “check it out”:http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3311/US_Papers_Sun_Keeping_Cool_in_Baghdad.