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Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi author and activist.

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for Western Asia) she contributed to "Arab Integration" report and "Towards Justice in the Arab world" report which was withdrawn by UN general secretary.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.

March 29, 2023 | Haifa Zangana

Democracy in Iraq appears to be taking its terminal breath

We are witnessing another decline in Iraq. The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual Democracy Index indicates another low point, with Iraq falling eight places to rank 124 out of 167...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, UK, UN, US
March 21, 2023 | Haifa Zangana

The Iraq Resistance and the well-intentioned coloniser

While presenting the responsibilities of the British Ministry of Defence in the House of Commons, on 13 March, the Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, reminded the House...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, UK, US, Videos & Photo Stories
January 11, 2023 | Haifa Zangana

Corruption and sectarianism need to be eradicated to solve Iraq's problems

After decades of war, siege and occupation, it is rare to see an Iraqi audience joyful; rare to see women and men laughing and singing happily together in a...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
August 25, 2022 | Haifa Zangana

The Ukrainian victory in Saudi Arabia

Last Saturday, Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk won the world heavyweight boxing championship in a fight against Britain's Anthony Joshua at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah. The audience included Crown...

Published in: Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, FIFA, International Organisations, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, NATO, Opinion, Palestine, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, US
August 16, 2022 | Haifa Zangana

The British government responds as a friend of Israel

More than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for the UK to review its foreign policy "in light of reports of Israeli apartheid". After obtaining the number of signatures...

Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, South Africa, UK
August 2, 2022 | Haifa Zangana

Iraq's black comedy: The storming of the Parliament

Why does the occupation of the Iraqi Parliament building in the Green Zone in Baghdad, not arouse feelings of enthusiasm, as it did in the case of the protesters'...

Published in: Asia & Americas, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Sri Lanka
May 10, 2022 | Haifa Zangana

Who's responsible for covering Iraq with red dust?

A dust storm that covered seven Iraqi governorates, including Baghdad, caused more than 5,000 cases of suffocation and the death of one person. Social media sites circulated astonishing pictures...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
February 16, 2022 | Haifa Zangana

Is there any point in the UN's World Day of Social Justice?

Given that citizens were being humiliated in most countries year in and year out, the UN decided in 2007 to mark 20 February annually as the World Day of...

Published in: Article, International Organisations, Opinion, UN
January 11, 2022 | Haifa Zangana

Will a million signatures stop the honouring of a war criminal?

Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, says Mr Blair deserves knighthood, the title of "Sir" bestowed on him by the Queen, the UK's highest honour, for "making Britain a better...

Published in: Afghanistan, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, UK, US
December 22, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

Why does Iraq top the lists of the world's 'worst' countries?

The devastation caused by man to the environment is no longer a secret; nature is striking back painfully, after decades of warnings by scientists of a catastrophic future that...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
November 18, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

There are no friends for Kurdish migrants on the Polish border

US President Joe Biden is worried, and his worry is shared by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Not, I might add, because of the "attempted assassination" of Iraq's caretaker Prime...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Belarus, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Poland, US
November 9, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

The struggle for power between the ruling families in Iraq

How can we understand what is currently happening in Iraq in terms of the violence, in the form of sabotage and fighting with live bullets or booby-trapped drones that...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
October 26, 2021

Why do nations elect incompetent leaders?

What makes nations, whether from countries with ancient democracies, such as Britain and America or a newly established democracy such as Iraq, choose leaders, especially in the last decade,...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, News, Opinion, Tunisia, UK, US
October 6, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

Should we participate in the Iraqi elections or boycott them?

In a tweet written in English, Prime Minister of the Baghdad government, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, addressed the Iraqi people on the occasion of the early elections to be held on...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, US
September 28, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

On normalisation, the Kurds, and the sigh of an American commander

On Friday 24 September a conference titled "Peace and Recovery" was held in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The conference, which was organised by an American...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
September 22, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

Empowering women in Iraq and Afghanistan: Is this the actual question?

At a time when the voices of American and British officials, and the official media in the West in general, are loudly denouncing the lack of support for Afghan...

Published in: Afghanistan, Article, Asia & Americas, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
August 25, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

If the Taliban's actions are the benchmark, where does that put America's in Iraq?

Was America really surprised by the quick return of the Taliban to Afghanistan? Is there some hidden truth or is it just that everything happened much faster than anticipated,...

Published in: Afghanistan, Article, Asia & Americas, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
August 11, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

Yes, more than 11,500 people are under sentence of death in Iraq

The interviews are harrowing. "It was the same routine, every day hanging me up and beating me. There are things they did to me there that I am too...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
August 5, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

The electricity crisis in Iraq is a microcosm of the corruption afflicting the country

When the Green Party's Caroline Lucas MP asked Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs whether the government was supporting gas-related projects in other countries financially,...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, US
June 24, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

Iraq is now part of the Balkan route used by drug smugglers

Almost daily, the security authorities in Iraq announce the arrest of drug smugglers and users, especially in Baghdad, as well as Basra in the south and Diyala on the...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
May 26, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

We can learn from Iraq when looking to the future in Palestine

Palestine, which lives in our hearts and souls, has within eleven days achieved a lot in the relentless struggle for freedom, albeit at a cost which we all know...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
March 31, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

The Palestine Book Awards and resisting the falsification of history

The gap between the Arab people and their governments has never been greater and deeper than what we are currently experiencing regarding Palestine. At a time when some governments...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
January 27, 2021 | Haifa Zangana

Iraq's prime minister should be dismissed and prosecuted for his failures

Thirty-two dead and over 110 wounded people have been added to the list of bombing victims in Iraq. Two suicide bombers were responsible; strapped with explosives they blew themselves...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, US
December 23, 2020 | Haifa Zangana

Having unemployed oil engineers in oil-rich Iraq is unacceptable

Engineering graduates gathered again on Sunday to protest in front of the headquarters of the Shuaiba Refinery near Basra in southern Iraq because of the government's failure to respond...

Published in: Article, Opinion
August 14, 2020 | Haifa Zangana

From Fallujah and Aleppo to Beirut… We are the children of Hiroshima

On Thursday 6 August, we were preparing to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. But on Tuesday, we were...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, France, Iraq, Japan, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, US
March 10, 2020 | Haifa Zangana

Let's celebrate International Women's Day

For the first time since the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, women in the country are celebrating International Women's Day, in a way that is reminiscent of...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
March 4, 2020 | Haifa Zangana

The Iraqi uprising is a quantum leap in collective awareness

Muhammad Allawi has recently been appointed as Prime Minister of the Iraqi transitional government, since when the auction for government positions has quickened; in this it is no different...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
January 15, 2020 | Haifa Zangana

Iraq: Assassinating the press and the game of recycling politicians

Journalist Ahmed Abdel Samad and his colleague, photographer Ghali Al-Tamimi, were added to the list of Iraqi women and men martyrs after being assassinated three days ago by what...

Published in: Article, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion
July 3, 2019 | Haifa Zangana

The love-hate relationship between the US and Iran

As the American war drums against Iran grow louder, we are beginning to hear their joyous echoes in the hearts of Iraqi parties who view the war as "liberation"...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Iran, Middle East, Opinion, US
December 6, 2018 | Haifa Zangana

The Palestine Book Awards 2018: refuting the Israeli narrative

How can we tackle the Israeli narrative about Palestine's past and present, when the Palestinian people continue to struggle against Israel's colonial occupation which bases its existence on a...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Review - Events & Articles
December 13, 2017 | Haifa Zangana

Foolishness has its price, as the US administration and Arab rulers know

Was President Donald Trump aware of how foolish he looked when he sat in front of the cameras and proudly signed a document recognising Jerusalem as the Israeli capital?...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
November 29, 2017 | Haifa Zangana

Books on Palestine to combat stripping Palestinians of their humanity

Writing is the act of documentation and is one means of resisting apartheid and ethnic cleansing targeting any nation, let alone the Palestinian nation.

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, US, Videos & Photo Stories