Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family. Tamara Chalabi

the other hand, ever apprehensive of chaos, was relieved when order was imposed under the new regime. But she too was upset by her uncle’s imprisonment, concluding that the British were just as draconian as the Ottomans had been when they had banished Hadi’s uncle al-Uzri a couple of years earlier. She was also concerned by the fact that her father-in-law was attending many more political meetings. Ever prone to paranoiac imaginings, she was afraid that the British might expel him from his homeland too – and perhaps Hadi as well, since he would sometimes accompany Abdul Hussein to the gatherings. Whatever stability the British had restored to society, Bibi feared that the retribution of their justice might fall upon the heads of her family, swiftly and arbitrarily, at any time.