Dr. Nabeel Khudairi will give a talk entitled, “The Iraqi Refugee Crisis – A Four Million Man March”, at the Walpole Public Library on June 3 at 7:30 pm. Dr. Khudairi was born in Baghdad in 1961. His father, from the southern city of Amara, was the dean of the University of Baghdad College of Agriculture and a PhD graduate of UCLA, while his mother was an ecologist and was from the northern city of Mosul.
In 1966, to escape political harassment created by the newly established Ba’ath Party, his family moved to Boston, where his father taught at Northeastern University. Nabeel returned to Iraq with his family for a few years in the mid 1970’s, but due to another period of instability created when Saddam Hussein forcefully seized the presidency, he and his family returned permanently to the U.S.
Dr. Khudairi is an optometrist with private practices in Norwood and Wellesley. He is active with interfaith dialogues, has lectured to various schools and religious and peace organizations and has been interviewed by major television, radio and print news services about the affairs in Iraq.
The talk is sponsored by the Walpole Peace and Justice Group and is open to the public.
Also note:
The “Tribute to U.S. Military Killed in Iraq", scheduled for this past Saturday, May 31, was postponed due to weather forecast of showers and thunderstorms throughout the day. Plans are being made to reschedule the display.
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