Madison-Rafah Journal

Wednesday, May 2, 12pm - 1pm
(SEE Today in the Union for location)
UW Middle East Studies Program

Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi-American peace activist, will be visiting Madison on May 2 as part of his Wisconsin speaking tour. Rasouli was born in Iraq, immigrated to the U.S. at age 27, and has spent his life here building a successful small business in Minneapolis. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Rasouli became increasing concerned about the plight of the Iraqi people, has traveled to Iraq frequently, and spoken to many audiences in the Midwest, offering a unique perspective on the U.S. occupation of his home county.

He will be speaking at noon on the UW campus at an event sponsored by the UW Middle East Studies Program and the Campus Antiwar Network. He will also be at a reception sponsored by Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice from 10:30 – 11:30 am, at the WNPJ office, 122 State St. #402.

Rasouli was recently interviewed on the Pacifica Network program Democracy Now (LINK: democracynow.org). He told host Amy Goodman, "As an embedded first-hand witness in Iraq…I want to share stories the American public is not aware of and the mainstream media is not telling."