By: Wieneke Vucht Van Like elsewhere in the Middle East, in Iraq social media is a fast growing way of communication. Contrary to the situation ten years ago, the use of mobile phone is nowadays nearly universal. Internet cafes are booming and the amount of Iraqi users on Facebook exceeds two million users. During the Saddam Hussein dictatorship, there was no free media in Iraq. The main TV Channel was Iraqi TV, which featured patriotic music, government news and propaganda. Saddams oldest son Uday produced the newspaper Babel and a local Iraqi TV channel called “Al-shabab TV”. Internet access was tightly controlled and very few people were allowed to be online. One decade after Hussein’s fall in March 2003, the media map has changed completely. Iraq is fully introduced into the world of modern telecommunication.