IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE UK

Update 10 June 2010
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Arab Media Watch
 CAABU
Friends of Lebanon
Iraqi Association
Middle-East Institute at SOAS

2010

Dec

Nov

Oct

Sept

Aug

BBC Proms presents a feast of Iraqi music click for details

July

Friday 2-Sunday 11 July

26-27 July

June

12 June

Fayhaa Abdulwahab, 50, was an English language teacher in Iraq. She was forced to leave because she refused to sign a declaration supporting the regime. One day she was dragged from her classroom, blindfolded and taken to be tortured. It is still very hard for her to tell this part of the story, she says, as we are confronted, in the V&A's sculpture galleries, by a contorted stone figure with an arm clasped behind its back and its head to one side.

She was set free but, unable to work as a teacher, escaped the country on horseback. In the museum, Abdulwahab's attention is drawn to a small, brown horse set behind glass. She remembers reaching the Syrian border and turning her head to take in what she was leaving behind. There followed 12 years of rootlessness before she made it to the UK.

Abdulwahab says she sees empathy on the audiences' faces and believes the tours will challenge people's attitudes. "It is a chance for me to deliver a message about the attitude to refugees and why we are here," she says.

My V&A tours are free and in English. click here for details 

2008

2007

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