Hadani Ditmars is an international journalist based in Canada and the author of the bestseller, Dancing in the No Fly Zone: a Woman's Journey Through Iraq, a book that provides a unique perspective on the troubled nation both before and after the US invasion.

Her work has been published in the New York Times, London Independent, The Globe and Mail,. Time, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Newsweek and broadcast on the BBC and CBC radio and television. Her Ms. Magazine essay on Iraqi women has been adopted for several university courses. She has been reporting from the Middle East since 1992 and has been on assignment in Iraq six times since 1997. Dancing in the No Fly Zone celebrates the culture and humanity of a place that has been demonized, bombed and tyrannized for decades.