Part of a symposium in conjunction with Iraqi Art and Literature Around the World

January 30, 2002
Grinnell College
Forum South Lounge

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Dunya Mikhail	Fadhil Obaid Assultani	Fadhil Al-Azzawi
	POEMS
Christmas	Sometimes I Dream	Bedouins
Pomegranate	A Tree	The Lion
Statements	Van Gogh	Listen, Noah
The Prisoner		I Confess That I Have Lived My Life
The War Works Hard
	STATEMENTS
Mikhail	Assultani	Al-Azzawi
on free expression	on the Iraqi	on being an Iraqi poet
	community	on the flight of Iraqi poets
	in exile

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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