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Salam Pax
Salam Pax is the pseudonym of Salam Abdulmunem ((アラビア語:سلام عبد المنعم)), aka Salam al-Janabi ((アラビア語:سلام الجنابي)), under which he became the "most famous blogger in the world" during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Along with a massive readership, his site "Where is Raed?" received notable media attention. The pseudonym consists of the word for "peace" in Arabic (''salām'') and in Latin (''pax''). His was one of the first instances of an individual's blog having a wide audience and impact.〔Brian D. Loader, ''Social movements and new media'', Sociology Compass, 2/6 (2008)〕
== Bio ==
Salam Abdulmunem (the name he uses now, based on Abd al-Munim) was born to a well-to-do secular family in Baghdad in 1973. His father Adnan Abd al-Munim al-Janabi, a Sunni, worked for OPEC, his mother was a Shi'ite, while Salam himself became skeptical of religion. He came to Vienna, Austria, with his parents when he was 5, the family returned to Baghdad five years later, and Salam went back to Austria alone at the age of 16 in order to study at the Vienna International School where he became fluent in English in addition to German and his native Arabic.
When he went through his yearly allowance from back home in a month, his family brought him to Iraq in 1995,〔 where Salam continued his study of architecture at the University of Baghdad. He described the first two years as the most difficult period in his life: I felt lost somewhere between the East and the West. I did not know where I belonged for a long time.〔 After graduation, he worked for the Baghdad office of a Beirut, Lebanon, architectural consultancy and as an occasional interpreter for foreign journalists before and during the invasion of Iraq, when he become a successful English-language blogger under the name ''Salam Pax'' and a contributor to ''The Guardian'' beginning from 4 June 2003. He moved to London in 2007, where he took up journalism at City University London,〔 and then lived in Beirut. Salam Abdulmunem returned to Baghdad in 2009 and started working as Communications Officer for UNICEF in Iraq in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Iraq )〕
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