Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Iraq
During a recent edition of "In Character," NPR’s series of reports on "fictional but influential people," reporter Jamie Tarabay explains why she was able to maintain her sanity during assignment in Iraq thanks to the adventures of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
According to Tarabay, the "hellmouth" Buffy and Co. lived around and found themselves continually fighting to close really wasn’t all that different than Baghdad and the areas of wartorn Iraq she reported from on a daily basis.