The focus of this paper will be on Iraqi women writing their personal daily experiences of the war(s) in Iraq. I argue that these women write on their personal experiences in order to paint the struggles of the collective Iraqi experience of the war. This incorporates two trends in which Joseph Zeidan calls the quest for personal and national identity (Zeidan, 1995). Based on readings of their narrations one can get a better idea in terms of the way Iraqis and particularly Iraqi women, deal with life under certain strenuous conditions as well as their collective experience under these conditions. These Iraqi women writers deliver to the reader the point of view or perspective of the Iraqi women based on their firsthand experiences of the war. This female perspective of the war, sanctions, and exile provides a unique lens from the inside to those who are used to seeing these events from the outside, from an external lens. This paper will present the historical and political realities Iraqi women write about, and the factors that have shaped the way they write about their homeland. The theoretical frameworks this paper will draw on feminist theory, postmodern theory, and post-colonial theory. Although several Iraqi women have written about themes of exile and war, the focus of this paper will be on the following books: Iqbal Al-Qazwani’s “Zubaida’s Window” (Al-Qazwini, Eng. 2007:11), and Betool Khedairi’s “A Sky So Close” (Khedairi, Eng. 2001). Through these two novels one can reflect upon the Iraq war(s) through a lens different from what one is used to seeing. The significance of these novels lies in their description of the war(s) and exile and the impact they had on their personal lives.