Molly Bingham & Haifa Zangana, Hammer Forums

4/2/08 -- Photojournalist Molly Bingham was Official Photographer to the Office of the Vice President of the United States from 1998-2001. On 9/11 she provided some of the few on-the-scenes photos of the Pentagon, and in 2003 was detained for eight days by the Iraqi government security services and held in Abu Ghraib prison. Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi-born novelist, artist, political commentator and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein's regime. She is the author of Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London, and City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance.

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