Obama’s IRAQ
Film Screening
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:30 PM EDT
Meese Room, Mason Hall Building
With over 1 million Iraqis dead, 4 million refugees, 4,000 dead American soldiers and a total cost of 1-4 trillion dollars, the war in Iraq remains the most important fact of American politics, but it has faded from the headlines. The scraps of television coverage that still make the news don't go far beyond US military press releases and Iraqi politicians interviewed inside the Green Zone. ‘Obama’s Iraq' is a collection of short films from the other side of the blast shields in Iraq's walled cities. Rick Rowley covers a very different side of the war than is ever seen on American television. He reports un-embedded from war-torn Falluja, from the giant US prison at Umm Qasr, from the Mehdi Army stronghold inside Sadr City, from the places where mainstream corporate channels can not or will not go.
Question and Answer with Director Richard Rowley to Follow the Documentary
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For more information, please contact the Middle East Studies Program Director, Bassam Haddad (bhaddad@gmu.edu)
Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program and Middle East Etc Film Club.
