What Iraq - The Cost of War - Human, Environmental, Economic a public forum with Dr. Dahlia Wasfi
When: Wednesday June 11th at 7pm
Where: Canadian Memorial United Church - 1806 W 15th Ave at Burrard
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi was born in United States to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father in 1971 and spent her early childhood in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, until she returned with her family to the United States in 1977. Dr. Wasfi graduated from Swarthmore College in 1993 with a B.A. in Biology, and in 1997 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In February/March of 2004, after years of separation, Wasfi visited Iraq to see her family in Basrah and Baghdad. She journeyed to Iraq again for a 3-month visit in 2006. Based on her experiences, she is speaking out against the negative impact of the U.S. invasion on the Iraqi people and the need to end the occupation.
