City of Widows by Haifa Zangana

City of Widows by Haifa Zangana

In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a system
within which to build the country according to their own values. She points to the long history of political activism and social participation of Iraqi women, and the fact that, before the recent invasion, they had been among the most liberated of their gender in the Middle East. Finally, she writes about
Baghdad today as a city populated by bereaved women and children who have lost their loved ones and their land, but who are still emboldened by the native right to resist and liberate themselves to create an independent Iraq.

In the 1970s, Haifa Zangana was imprisoned and tortured for actively resisting Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. A journalist, artist, and activist, Zangana is the author of The City of Widows and co-founder of Solidarity for an Independent and Unified Iraq. She contributes to the Guardian, Red Pepper, and Al-Ahram Weekly and writes a weekly column for Al Quds.

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ISBN 13	9781583227794
ISBN 10	1583227792
Title	City of Widows
Author	Haifa Zangana
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Year published	2007-11-06
Number of pages	160
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