Thura Al Windawi

Thura Al-Windawi is author of Thura's Diary, which was a written diary by Thura on the eve of and during the Iraq war. It shows her life during this time and explains the harsh times there were. Later it was published and it caught the eye of a British journalist. She was born in 1983 to a British educated father and a middle class Iraqi mother and attended both the University of Baghdad and the University of Pennsylvania, she studied pharmacology at Baghdad.