Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is an internationally known speaker and activist. Born in the United States to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father, she lived in Iraq as a child, returning to the United States at age five. After graduating from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in biology in 1993, she earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Wasfi has made two trips to Iraq to visit her extended family since the 2003 “Shock and Awe” invasion, including a three-month stay in Basrah in the spring of 2006. She has brought her eyewitness account of life under occupation to over 200 audiences in 22 states; Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; Ontario and British Columbia in Canada; Madrid, Spain; and the third International Iraq Conference in Berlin, Germany. Based on her experiences, Wasfi is speaking out in support of immediate, unconditional withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and the need to end the occupation “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” She is currently working on a book. Her web site is www.liberatethis.com.

When: April 19, 7:00 PM
Where: Marian University, Allison Mansion

Contact: Dr. Ralph Leck, Director of Peace and Justice Studies rleck@marian.edu 317.955.6228