History of Women in Modern Iraq

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Haifa Zangana says that Iraqi women have a long history of being daring and vocal activists. Ms. Zangana is an Iraqi political commentator, novelist, and former political prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime; her new history of women in Iraq is called City of Widows.

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