Leilah nadir biography of christopher
Leilah Nadir grew up in England and Canada with an Iraqi father and an English mother.
Long overdue, the United Kingdom finally sees the publication of the Iraqi-Canadian Leilah Nadir's book: 'The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost.!
What was the catalyst for you to write The Orange Trees of Baghdad?
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was deeply traumatic for my whole family, both inside Iraq and in England and Canada.
Witnessing that continuing trauma firsthand, as well as through other Iraqis I knew in Canada, gave new power to the catchphrase, “The personal is political.” For me, the war was and is about my family and that entirely transformed my response to the public discussion that was occurring around me in the West.
In the lead-up to the war, I felt alienated from the debate about the war because the story was always told from a Western viewpoint and never from an Iraqi one. I felt helpless, so I started contacting media to write articles about the Iraqi perspective; it was the only thing I knew how to do in the face of the coming catastrophe.
I knew I had to write a book, because I felt that Iraqis were afraid to come into the open because of the history of political repression in Iraq,
