Description
“Diy” may be an abbreviation for the name of that ethereal angel, “Devalon,” but it is also, and primarily, an abbreviation for the name of the Baghdad girl, Diyala Abdul Wahid, who accompanies this angel. She recounts her daily life, recorded in forty diary pages filled with events, anxieties, thoughts, and the stirrings of her emotional self since she was fifteen years old.
It could also be seen as a diary of an entire generation of Iraqi women struggling with the circumstances of successive wars, culminating in the war with ISIS, and grappling with various forms of racism, desires, ambitions, and hopes. “Diary of Diy” comprises 400 pages in a large format, divided into 31 chapters. The cover features a painting by the Iraqi artist Hanan Al-Bayati.
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