On today’s Your Call, we’ll mark the 10-year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq with a panel of Iraqi activists, artists and journalists. How are Iraqis looking back 10 years after the invasion and occupation of their country? What is life like in Iraq today? What’s the status of rebuilding efforts? Millions of Iraqis were forced to flee their country. What questions do you have for Iraqis? It’s your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Farah Muhsin, assistant representative with the Iraqi Student Project, a grass-roots effort to help war-displaced Iraqi students
Oday Rasheed, Iraqi film director and writer
Zainab Saleh, post-doc fellow, visiting assistant professor in anthropology at Haverford College
Sahar Issa, McClatchy's Baghdad Bureau Correspondent
Web Resources:
Inquirer Opinion: An Iraqi film hero in America
The Guardian: Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam
Event on the 10th anniversary of Iraq
McClatchy: Middle East in turmoil 10 years after Iraq invasion that officials said would bring peace
Financial Times: A decade on from the US invasion, the country is still struggling to find its future
Jadaliyya: A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq
Jadaliyya: Beating the Drums of Orientalism
The Guardian: Iraq war 10 years on: 'One problem has been the withdrawal of the educated elite. So many have emigrated'