The Struggle for Iraqi Civil Society
Transcript of Lecture by Zainab Al-Suwaij
Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2004

"It was really different to be back again... trying to help this society and this country emerge from what they’ve been through in the past 35 years to a new Iraq and their lives. You see now people are talking freely, acting freely, traveling freely, debating, experimenting, and practicing, you know, their life just as normal people... At night when they go to sleep, they feel that since the previous regime no longer exists and Saddam is no longer there, at least they feel safe inside."
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