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| Film Description: | H.E. Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumaida'ie, Ambassador of Iraq, speaks about Iraq's rich and long history and the themes of continuity and change in its culture at the re-opening of the exhibition Iraq's Ancient Past at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The forging of "national character," the nation's self-image, and the importance of cultural heritage in Iraqi national identity, is considered. More at http://www.penn.museum/sites/iraq |
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| Video Category: | Lecture |
| Contributor: | H.E. Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumaida'ie |
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Join us on first Wednesdays at 6:00 pm from October 2021 through June 2022 for our "Great Revolutionaries" lecture series.