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About Haider Saeed

Haider Saeed is a writer living in Baghdad.

Articles by Haider Saeed

Wednesday 30th June

'Independence Day'

Haider Saeed casts a quizzical eye over Iraq’s latest independence, in which the Iraqi people remain the objects of other powers.
Wednesday 23rd June

Who 'sees' who? An American summit photo in an Iraqi gaze

From Baghdad, Haider Saeed reflects on how the image of Arab / Islamic leaders in “traditional” dress at the G8 summit in Sea Island symbolises the subordinate integration of non–western polities into America’s universalist but also imperial understanding of democracy.
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