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February 20, 2008

Former Iraq official comes to Providence

A former Iraqi official is coming to Rhode Island to talk about the ways the war has affected political, economic and social stability of the region.

Ali A. Allawi, former senior minister for the post-Saddam Hussein government is delivering Brown University’s inaugural Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East. “The Iraq Crisis and the Middle East Order,” is scheduled for this evening.

Allawi worked as the interim minister of trade for Iraq between September 2003 and June 2004, when he became the minister of defense for the transitional government.

The next year, Allawi was appointed minister of finance. He is also the author of “The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace.” He’ll be signing copies of his book at 4 p.m. in the lobby of the Salomon Center for Teaching, on the campus green. The lecture will begin at 5 p.m., in room 101.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 9:38 AM | Permalink

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