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...musical performance and discussion about the modern-day issues raised by the films.Hassan M.H. Al-Damluji, a British citizen of Iraqi descent and a second-year master’s degree candidate in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department, organized the event with help from his cousin Tamara Jafar ’09. Al-Damluji hopes the festival will help create greater awareness of Iraqi culture and society in America. The festival, he says, will “really celebrate Iraqi culture and give the spotlight to Iraq as a cultural producer.”Since the American invasion...
...Wahhabism, a fundamentalist stream of Sunni Islam that rejects Shi'ite practice as heretical. Rahim, who wears a hijab headscarf, associates Wahhabism with the fully-veiled women she sees on the street who often refuse to return the greetings of Shi'ites. Two years ago, she says, her son Jafar came home from the Sunni-run Muslim National School and told her that his classmates had called him kafir, meaning infidel. Jafar, she says, was also taunted whenever a bomb exploded in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad. "Who teaches them this?" Rahim asks. "It is not the teachers...
...Jafar is also helping Hassan M.H. Al-Damluji, a Harvard graduate student, organize an Iraqi film festival in April...
Like Shakir, Jafar said she sees her Iraqi heritage influencing her future...
...always change things about yourself. You can change beliefs, you can change your concentration, you can change who you date. But you can’t change your family, and you can’t change where your family’s from," Jafar added. "You can try to deny it, but that never really works out. Your roots are always going to be a part...