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Hadani Ditmars

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Hadani Ditmars is the author of Dancing in the No Fly Zone: a Woman's Journey Through Iraq. A former editor at New Internationalist, she has been reporting from the Middle East for two decades.

Blog: How did the definition of 'Canadian' go from Pierre Berton's "someone who can make love in a canoe" to "someone who sells weapons to human rights abusers"?

16 August, 2017

Blog: Military hubris prevents lessons being learned about the re-emergence of armed extremist groups, notes Hadani Ditmars.

04 August, 2017

Blog: Does life imitate art? Scenes from the Middle East remind Hadani Ditmars of a Hollywood movie, albeit one with a particularly twisted director.

27 July, 2017

Society: A new one-man-show tells the true story of a refugee jihadist who renounced violence to become an actor thanks to Jenin's famed Freedom Theatre, writes Hadani Ditmars.

20 July, 2017

Blog: Tanavoli's exhibition in Tehran offers a rich, complex take on his nation's history, notes Hadani Ditmars.

20 July, 2017

Blog: A family reunion wasn't the retreat Hadani Ditmars had been hoping for.

28 June, 2017

Blog: Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman may have stormed the box office, but more real-life super-heroines are fighting for justice every day, writes Hadani Ditmars.

28 June, 2017

Blog: Anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise across Canada despite a recent anti-Islamophobia motion passed by the Canadian parliament in March.

25 June, 2017

Undermining public safety in the name of cutting costs ties London to Baghdad and beyond, writes Hadani Ditmars.

16 June, 2017

Blog: The parallels between life in Iraq and the UK can be striking, writes Hadani Ditmars.

08 June, 2017