IRAQI GIRLS: HOME & AWAY - PART 1
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ZEENA ZAKARIA, 20
Vice: When did you come to London?
Zeena: I moved here from Baghdad when I was seven. My mother and father were doctors there but they decided to leave when things in Iraq started to go bad. This was a few years before the American invasion.
We had to flee the country in secret because if Saddam found out that doctors were leaving the country he’d do something about it. Travel was really limited under Saddam. Sadly, it’s probably got even worse since he went.
How did it get worse?
Before the Americans came, Iraq was very much a secular country. There were Muslims, Christians, and Jews all living there. Some people would wear headdresses like the one I’m wearing here but my mother would never wear anything like this.
These days though, with everything how it is, more and more women are wearing |
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full headdresses and hijabs. The extremist religious militias are taking advantage of the fact that there’s virtually no law any more and so they’re attacking people for what they wear. The extremists are both Shia and Sunni and they’re all divided up into different groups. It’s a total mess. They want to turn the place into a religious state and I think they probably will.
What are you doing here in London?
I’m studying politics but I want to make films. I like going to drum and bass nights and my boyfriend’s really into grime.
How do you dress day to day?
I love heels. I’m really short so I want to be tall. I suppose I dress quite slutty really. I like shopping at Top Shop and American Apparel for stuff to wear around the house.
What if you dressed slutty in Iraq right now?
I think I’d be shot. Right now the most popular items of fashion in Baghdad are veils and bulletproof vests. |
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PHOTOS BY ALEX STURROCK STYLING BY ALDENE JOHNSON
HAIR & MAKEUP BY LINDA ANDERSSON AT S MANAGEMENT
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she’s not drugged she’s just ugly | |
| halzer, on Oct 22, 2009 wrote:
does no. 1 always look drugged? | | Anonymous, on Oct 20, 2009 wrote:
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Sam | | Anonymous, on Jul 3, 2008 wrote:
She seems Sexually frustrated. She raises relevant points. But she needs sex..seriously. | | |
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