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Zangana, a former political prisoner of the Ba'ath regime, presents the first comprehensive history of women in modern Iraq through the U.S. occupation. She contradicts the passive role shown by Western media and presents a forceful critique of attempts to hijack the initiatives of Iraqi women.

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 systemwithin which to build the country according to their own values. She points to the long history of political activism and social participation o...

Packaged Lives' is a collection of ten short stories and a novella, originally written in Arabic, by Iraqi-Kurdish writer Haifa Zangana"--

Bir sahit Haifa Zangana. 1970lerde, Saddam Hüseyine ve Baas rejimine karsi mücadele eden devrimci bir grubun mensubuydu. Bu yüzden mahpuslugu, iskenceyi, sürgünü yasadi. Bu ki- tapta, kendi gecmisiyle birlikte sevgili vatani Irakin dününü hatirliyor, bugünü üzerine düsünüyor.Cok katmanli, degisik karakterde bir kitap Bagdati Düslemek. Kurgu ile kurgu disinin ic ice gectigi, otobiyografik özellikler tasiyan ama yalnizca yazarin anilari olmakla ...

Weaving between the women's memories of Iraq- nostalgic and nightmarish- and their lives as exiles in London, Zangana's novel gives voice to the richness and complexity of Iraqi women's experiences. Through their stories, the novel represents a powerful critique of the violence done to ordinary people by those who hold power both in Iraq and in the West.

This evocative memoir captures the loneliness of exile and the connection between memory and survival.