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Sami Rasouli | A Holiday Invitation from Iraq to Donald Trump
The purpose of your visit will be educational in nature and focused on learning about Arab-Islamic culture…
Marie Braun | Iraq: Forgiving the Unforgivable
[Rasouli] wonders if U.S. citizens believe these wars, which could cost up to $6 trillion, were worth it.
Mary Beaudoin/Sami Rasouli | Iraq and I$I$: Today is Better Than Tomorrow
From the article: “In Iraq, we say today will be better than tomorrow.” This is the dire pessimism with which the people of Iraq now view their circumstances, Sami Rasouli said in June when he was in Minneapolis, the city in which he had lived for so many years before returning to found the Muslim Peacemaker Teams,(5) a nonprofit organization based in Najaf that works on peace building and responding to human needs. He reported that the situation for Iraqis only continues to decline in livability and increase in danger and disaster
Evergreene Digest: Report from Iraq: U.S. Invasion in 2003 Helped Set Path for Crisis Pulling Nation Apart
Representative of Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called on Iraqis to take up arms against what he called “terrorists” who have overrun large swaths of the country. We go to the city of Najaf to speak to Sami Rasouli, founder and director of the Muslim Peacemaker Teams in Iraq. Rachel […]
No War Toys R Us: Peace Day in Najaf
By Sami Rasouli Muslim Peacemaker Team WAMM Newsletter November/December 2013 On September 21, 2013, local NGOs in Najaf, Iraq, led by a group of young people called the Moja Team, held an event. Youth collected hundreds of weapon-toys from local Iraqi kids in Najaf prior to the event. The toy weapons were displayed in […]
Luke Wilcox: Embedded with Peacemakers in Iraq
Luke Wilcox: Report from Iraq Luke Wilcox is Development and Communications Director with the Iraq American Reconciliation Project (IARP). For the last 5 weeks, I’ve lived and worked with the Muslim Peacemaker Teams and my host, Sami Rasouli. Tomorrow I fly back to Minneapolis. It has been an eye-opening and life-changing experience. The many Iraqis […]
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