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 was then later published as 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

University of Baghdad

The University of Baghdad is the largest university in Iraq and the second largest Arab university following the University of Cairo.- Nomenclature :Both University of Baghdad and Baghdad University are used interchangeably....

 and the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

, she studied pharmacology

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

at Baghdad.

External links

• Thura al-Windawi Bio