The film-maker is the daughter of Adnan Pachachi, the principled and impressive former diplomat who is one of the elder statesman of secular Iraq.
"When the Iraqi-born filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi returned to her homeland in early 2004, it was her first visit in 35 years. Her 80-year-old father, Adnan, had become a member of the United States-appointed Iraqi Governing Council the previous summer, and Ms. Pachachi wanted to document the drafting of a transitional constitution and bill of rights. But in a country brutalized by wars, sanctions, and Saddam Hussein's cruelties, the creation of a unifying law seems as utopian as peace itself."
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