| Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer and worked as the executive manager for the family's water treatment firm in Baghdad. At the start of the war, she began working with local Iraqi non-governmental organizations to assist people with food and medicine. Due to the deterioration of the security situation in Iraq, Faiza moved to Amman, Jordan, in December, 2004 where she has continued her humanitarian activities by voluntarily organizing campaigns to collect funds to help Iraqi refugees with food and medical supplies.
Faiza attended conferences in Malaysia and Italy in 2007, at which she discussed the ramifications of the invasion and subsequent occupation from her experiences as an Iraqi woman. She also participated in the 2005 SIT Peace Building Institute in Vermont, and in 2006, toured the United States as part of the delegation of Iraqi woman invited by the GX organization and testified before Congress about the disastrous situation in Iraq.
She is currently working with a local Jordanian non-governmental organization as Project Coordinator to improve education for Iraqi women and children living in Jordan. Faiza maintained two blogs during the war, The War Diary and A Family in Baghdad, on which parts of this book are based. Faiza is the mother of Raed and Khalid.
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