Iraq
Iraqi Women Artists Visiting Minneapolis for Discussion and Collaboration This Weekend
What are the women of Iraq feeling and thinking after the "end" of the US-led war, in the aftermath of its destruction and the tide of the Arab Spring?
NOT ABOUT BOMBS Artist Talk and Reception
Join us at Intermedia Arts for the closing reception of NOT ABOUT BOMBS... a contemporary collection of works by female Iraqi artists.
Holy Innocents talk at St. Joan of Arc
The President announced two weeks ago that the war in Iraq is over. The TV cameras showed the convoy of military trucks driving out of Iraq into Kuwait. All US Troops are now out of Iraq – well, except for several hundred which remain in the Kurdish north who will continue to train Iraqi military and police.MORE »
On the "end" of the Iraq war
I'm sharing a few items that I found worthwhile, on the occasion of the putative end of direct U.S. military involvement in Iraq.MORE »
Reaping the whirlwind: The shadow side of imperial bullying
It was in conversation with the Iraqi doctors visiting from Najaf that I inquired about Muqtada al-Sadr and the role he and his militias might play in Iraq after the U.S. uniformed troops leave by the end of this year. [Note: we leave behind close to 6,000 mercenary “contractors” – mostly ex-military personnel hired at enormous cost to provide “security” for U.S.MORE »
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Shadow Side of Imperial Bullying
It was in conversation with the Iraqi doctors visiting from Najaf that I inquired about Muqtada al-Sadr and the role he and his militias might play in Iraq after the U.S. uniformed troops leave by the end of this year. [Note: we leave behind close to 6,000 mercenary “contractors” – mostly ex-military personnel hired at enormous cost to provide “security” for U.S.MORE »
A warning to Secretary Clinton: Economic sanctions kill the innocent
I sat across the table from my new friend, Dr. Ali, an Iraqi Radiologist who was visiting Minneapolis as part of the Sister City delegation from Najaf, Iraq.MORE »
Iraqi delegates visit sister city of Minneapolis, share stories
In 2004, hundreds of Iraqi protesters came to demonstrate in front of a U.S. military base — approximately 200 meters away from the hospital where Azar Maluki works in Najaf, Iraq.MORE »
"Iraqi"
If there’s one general insight that has stayed with me from the IR501 (International Relations and Religion) course I took in grad school, it’s that categories suck. “Christian,” “American,” “Arab,” “Muslim,” “Liberal,” “Friend,” etc. serve an important purpose of helping us order the complex information we process every day, but they also simplify and homogenize that complexity.MORE »
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