CIVIC: Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict

CIVIC will host a one-night-only panel discussion with the audience following a performance of the new Off-Broadway play Aftermath, based on interviews of Iraqi refugees conducted by CIVIC and the play's authors in Jordan last year.

You may recall last year our associate director Marla B. traveled with Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen - the award-winning creators of the play The Exonerated - to Jordan to speak with Iraqis displaced by the war. They interviewed more than 20 families who'd fled the chaos and violence of Iraq, taking careful notes on their stories of loss and hope. Following the visit, Jessica and Erik crafted these conversations into an unforgettable theatrical event called Aftermath.

On September 22, 2009,the New York Theatre Workshop will host one-night-only discussion with our distinguished panelists following the performance.

The Iraq War: Beyond the Numbers

Headlines from the Iraq War were awash with numbers, from money spent to targets hit to civilians harmed. The war's aftermath is not about numbers. It is about names and families, birthdays celebrated and anniversaries mourned. It is about struggling to cope and rebuilding hope. Our distinguished panel will discuss this difficult time in Iraqi's history, as the US pulls out, and how civilians have and will continue to survive.

Panelists include: Anil Soni, board director of the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) and CEO of the William J. Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative; Manal Omar, an Iraq expertand program officer at the United States Institute for Peace; Jonathan Tracy ex-military lawyer and assistant director of the National Institute for Military Justice; and Christina Asquith, an award-winning journalist and author who reported extensively from Baghdad and recently released a book on Iraqi women titled "Sisters in War: A story of love, family, and survival in the New Iraq". A question and answer session will follow.

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