worthy goals.
I’m sure this is not the last we see of her. :)

A tall order for a woman in that society. Makes me wonder if she would consider that the end justifies the means. Maybe someone with the best of intentions who could turn out to be very, very dangerous.

Nice personification of Iraq. Is the country name feminine in Arabic? If so, is our parallel protagonist here getting overly emotional and mixing up her Arabic metaphors with English speech?