Wednesday March 6, 2013 at 6PM

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern  Antiquities                   

THE LOSS OF CULTURE IN IRAQ SINCE THE US INVASION  IN  2003

Lecture by Dr. Hashim Al-Tawil, Professor of Art History at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan. He is an active visual artist as  well as a specialist in Islamic and Arab art and  culture.

Thursday March 7, 2013 at 7:15PM

University House, Uppsala University, Room 9 (IX)

IRAQ – A CULTURE FOREVER LOST?

Organised by the Association for Foreign Affairs (Utrikes - Politiska föreningen vid Uppsala universitetet)

Talk by Dr. Hashim al-Tawil, on the effects of war and occupation and  the Restoring Iraqi Culture  Project     

Saturday March 9, 2013 at  1 PM

The ABF House

THE DE-CONSTRUCTION OF IRAQI CULTURE BY INVASION AND OCCUPATION

Meeting in cooperation with the Stockholm AB F (Trade Union Educational Society).   

Talk by Dr. Hashim Al-Tawil, Director of the Restoring Iraqi Culture Project .                                                   

Tomas Bolme, former chairman of the Swedish Actors Union (Teaterförbundet) will recite newly translated Iraqi poetry.  Updated info about continued human rights iolations and the mass protests in Iraq from Sigyn Meder

Iraqi Music Festival organised by Re-Orient “At the mouth of the Tigris” Farida Muhamed Ali (singer), Omar Bashir (oud). Yair Dalal (violin and oud) 

Performances in Uppsala March 13, Stockholm March 15, Malmö March 16, Göteborg March 17

Museum protest on the anniversary of the lootingof the National Museum in Baghdad. Details soon