Blog Post 2, Week 4, Brothers of the Gun (100-200)

One chapter from this section of the book that I thought was interesting was chapter 17. The chapter was titled Iphone Snapshots and Bombs, this caught my attention first because we had been talking about how during all of this war and fighting these ISIS soldiers still were using smart phones. On page 176 it said, “I’d met the Artist on Twitter-where else?-on which I’d started reporting in English nine months prior, on the IED workshops, the massacres, the graffiti that adorned walls each night, the gifts of unknown hands. Mine was perhaps the only English Twitter account in Raqqa. The artist was a journalist, and I would occasionally give her a quote for an article. Then she drew me for my birthday,…” This part of the chapter stood out to me because even though all this violence is going on he was still able to make a friend through social media which is a western invention which is kind of ironic since ISIS was does not like western culture yet as we can see it helped Marwan.