Haifa Zanaga

Haifa Zangana (هيفاء زنكنة - born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi novelist, author and artist. She is most notably known for writing Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London and City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance. Her recent books are Dreaming of Baghdad and The Torturer in the Mirror with Ramsey Clark and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer.

Solitude and dream: literature post-9/11

Iraqi novelist Haifa Zangana survived torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1970s and was subsequently forced into exile in London. So even though she was by then observing from a distance, Zangana’s fiction was not unaffected by what she calls the “mayhem and destruction” brought to Iraq b

By Frances Pinter and Haifa Zanaga

/ 19 Jun 2012