Dreaming of Baghdad Quotes

“Writing about memories is an elusive process. It often begins with a good intention: to convey the truth. What happens in reality is that we only write down what passes through the censors' eyes. The censors here are the ambient time and space, social and political conditions, and the psychological changers the writer herself. What one writes now is certainly not what actually happened. It is but a vague indicator of what might have happened, a mixture of illusive and contracted images, a dream, or an act conditioned by either a denial or a desire to see past events shaped by what is yearned for in the present. p. 153”
― Haifa Zangana, Dreaming of Baghdad

“The prism of time refracts the light into thousands of rays. I stand with my hands open and embrace them. p. 94”
― Haifa Zangana, Dreaming of Baghdad