| Edition |
First Feminist Press edition. |
| Description |
xi, 169 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Translated from the 1995 Arabic edition by Dar al-Hikma; originally published in English in 1990 in France, under title Through the vast halls of memory. |
| Summary |
Written by an Iraqi woman, this memoir addresses the experience of imprisonment and struggle against the Baath regime of Iraq, which lasted from 1968 to 2003. Zangana was a radical activist in Iraq in the 1970s, and she wrote of her experiences in hope that she would not betray the memories of the people with whom she worked or was imprisoned. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Correspondence -- Zino -- Baghdad -- London -- Portrait -- Nawchilican -- Big brother -- Another shore -- Visitation -- Back to Nawchilican -- Qasr al-Nihaya -- Heart, what have you seen? -- Ordinary dreams -- Silence -- Epilogue -- Afterword / Ferial J. Ghazoul. |
| Subject |
Political activists -- Iraq.
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Women political prisoners -- Iraq.
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Torture victims -- Iraq.
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Women -- Iraq.
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Iraq -- History -- 1958-
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Baghdad (Iraq)
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Zangana, Haifa, 1950-
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Authors, Iraqi -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Zangana, Haifa, 1950-
Through the vast halls of memory.
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| Added Title |
Fī arwiqat al-dhākirah. English
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| ISBN |
9781558616059 paperback |
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1558616055 paperback |
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