Dreaming of Baghdad

Description:

Written by an Iraqi woman, this memoir addresses the experience of imprisonment and struggle against the Baath regime of Iraq, which lasted from 1968 to 2003. Zangana was a radical activist in Iraq in the 1970s, and she wrote of her experiences in hope that she would not betray the memories of the people with whom she worked or was imprisoned.

subjects: Iraqi Authors,  Torture victims,  Women political prisoners,  Women,  Fiction,  Political activists,  Biography,  History,  Fiction, historical,  Iraq, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Haifa Zangana (1950-)

Places: Iraq,  Baghdad (Iraq)

Times: 1958-