Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi author and activist, and a judge for the Palestine Book Awards.
Among her books: Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London, Dreaming of Baghdad and City of widows: an Iraqi woman account of war and resistance. She edited “Party for Thaera; Palestinian women writing life“, a collection of non fictional creative writings by former Palestinian women prisoners.
She was an advisor for the UNDP Report Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World (2005) and as a consultant for ESCWA (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) she contributed to “Arab Integration” report and “Towards Justice in the Arab world” report which was withdrawn by UN general secretary.
Her writings published regularly by Arab & western media and she is a weekly columnist for Al Quds Al Arabi.
She currently works with former women political prisoners in Tunisia to write their own experiences as part of transitional justice process.
