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City of Widows

An Iraq Woman's Account of War and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781583227794

Contributor(s): Haifa Zangana

Subjects: Politics & Government

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 12-01-2008

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£15.99

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About the book

Haifa Zangana, a former political prisoner of the Ba'ath regime, is the first writer to put the plight of Iraqi women in context. She traces a long line of daring and vocal activists, resisting foreign aggression and despotism for the past 100 years, from a handful of turn of the century poets to 1960s activists in armed struggle and the suicide bombers of today. Addressing the stark reality of Iraq under occupation, Zangana reveals Baghdad as a city of widows, where more than 300 000 women, their regular lives destroyed, have been left to head households.

City of Widows

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