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Dancing in the No-fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq

Hadani Ditmars

from Black Oak Books:

Most recent books in English about Iraq, regardless of their political orientation, focus on the war in Iraq as an American enterprise. Canadian journalist Hadani Ditmars, who has been reporting from Iraq since 1997, has given us a book that focuses on Iraqi experience and Iraqi culture both before and after the American invasion in 2003. In Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman’s Journey Through Iraq Hadani Ditmars traces the trials of the Iraqi people under Saddam Hussein’s police state, the ruinous effects of sanctions, and the still more devastating consequences of the American invasion in 2003. While Hadani Ditmars reports upon poverty, malnutrition, and casualties of violence, her book is also a celebration of a resilient people who have learned to survive grievous circumstances. Being a woman of mixed European and Middle Eastern descent, Hadani Ditmars had access to many scenes and lives that were closed to her European male colleagues. She forged connections with Iraqi women to whose struggles she gives voice.

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