Dreaming of Baghdad
By: Haifa Zangana ; translated from Arabic by Paul Hammond and the author.
Contributors: Zangana, Haifa, 1950-
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781558616059
Subjects: Zangana, Haifa, -- 1950-; Political activists -- Iraq -- Fiction; Women political prisoners -- Iraq -- Fiction; Torture victims -- Iraq -- Fiction; Women -- Iraq -- Fiction; Authors, Iraqi -- Biography; Iraq -- History -- 1958- -- Fiction; Baghdad (Iraq) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction; Biography
Work titles: Fī arwiqat al-dhākirah.
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.
Notes: Translated from the 1995 Arabic edition by Dar al-Hikma; originally published in English in 1990 in France, under title Through the vast halls of memory.