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Iraqi Culture and the Diaspora
January 29 - 31, 2002
The poetry readings were part of a symposium sponsored
by Grinnell College's Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International
Relations and Human Rights and the Center for International Studies,
held in conjunction with the exhibition Iraqi Art and Literature
Around the World. Speakers included McGuire Gibson, Professor
of Mesopotamian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago;
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, writer, film-maker and Professor Emerita
of English and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin;
and Iraqi poets Dunya Mikhail, Fadhil Obaid Assultani, and Fadhil
Al-Azzawi.
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slide show of Iraqi Art
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