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Twenty-Eight Days in Baghdad

Nuha al-Radi

‘Rumsfeld says everything is improving day by day. I suggest he come live here for a couple of days and then say that.’

Nuha al-Radi

Nuha al-Radi (1941–2004) was an Iraqi diarist, ceramist and painter. Her eyewitness account of the Gulf War and its aftermath, Baghdad Diaries, first appeared in Granta 42 and was afterwards published as a book (Saqi/Vintage), as well as translated into several languages.

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