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DREAMING
OF BAGHDAD
Haifa Zangana
Foreword by Hamid Dabashi
Afterword by Ferial J. Ghazoul
Rs 375 Hb 2012
81-88965-72-3
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In the 1970s, a group of
activists united by the dream of a better Iraq, organised
in opposition to the Ba’ath Party and its charismatic
leader, Saddam Hussein. Haifa Zangana was among the
resisters who were captured, imprisoned and tortured in
Abu Ghraib.
During her first years of exile,
Zangana writes about the heady days of her activist
youth, confinement in Iraqi prisons, and a forced
departure from family and country. As she reckons with
the past, she recovers vivid memories of life in a place
she can never return to, a place that now no longer exists.
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