If one were to view the unfolding events in Iraq like a tragic movie script, some sequences might progress in the following manner, shedding light on the events that have led to the unravelling and demise of a once great nation.
Scene One is (...)
Streets crowded with pedestrians and cars. Markets busy, clothing and household provisions shops open, and vegetable and fruit stalls in their spots of old. The smell of fresh bread wafting from the bakery. Women and men shopping or going to work. A (...)
Under attack daily, occupation forces in Iraq have nowhere to go except home, writes Haifa Zangana
US policy in Iraq is not working and George W Bush should consider radical changes, according to a panel of advisors trying to find politically (...)
Threatened, abused, raped and tortured: such is the fate of untold numbers of Iraqi women amid the barbarous practices of the occupation. Haifa Zangana* examines the plight of Iraq's female security detainees
Within months of the occupation of Iraq, (...)
Women's rights in Iraq have not been destroyed by Islam but by the destruction of state and society brought on by foreign military aggression, writes Haifaa Zangana*
In an effort to pressure politicians framing Iraq's new constitution not to limit (...)
The fast deteriorating security situation in Iraq, and attendant social turmoil, is a damning testament to Washington's handling of Iraqi affairs, writes Haifa Zangana*
It was supposed to be the perfect scenario, in which Paul Bremer, the American (...)
