In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a societ
Exiled, displaced, tortured, and grieving - each of the five Iraqi women whose lives and losses come to us through Haifa Zangana's skillfully wrought novel is searching in her own way for peace with
“Deftly sketched, simple and poetic, Dreaming of Baghdad drags politics down from the realm of the abstract into the mud, fear, and loneliness of personal experience and psychological ruin that is lif
The torturere used to be the other. He was a man whose job it was to impose pain and extract information. Today we think of torture in a different way. Today, anyone, man or woman, who joins the army
Draws on the perspectives of leading writers to explore the impact of the War on Terror throughout the world, in an anthology published in conjunction with the Stop the War coalition and United for Pe
Prominent musicians, playwrights, scientists and writers look at howpublic opinion is wilfully ignored, and "democracy" used as a figleaffor US imperial ambitions in the Middle East.
