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The Arab American National Museum (AANM) invites you to Highlight Iraq, a FREE evening of film screenings and performance on Thursday, April 30th from 7:00-9:00 pm.

The event will feature several short films produced by Highlight Arts a non-profit UK based arts organization. The short films were produced during poetry translation workshops in Iraq and feature the work of several Iraqi poets including: Zaher Mousa, Gharreb Iskander, Sabreen Khadim, Ahmad Abdul Hussein and others. The evening will include performances and a panel presentation by local poets Kevin Rashid, Fadel Jabr, Maia Asshaq, Dunya Mikhail and visual artist, Wafer Shayota, and will conclude with music by Laith Al-Attar.

This event is part of an ongoing series organized in conjunction with Detroit to Baghdad: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here exhibit & book arts festival on display thru July 12, 2015.

Highlight Arts organizes festivals, events and workshops uncovering stories about people and places affected by a range of conflicts from inequality, prejudice, war and environmental issues.https://www.facebook.com/highlightarts

The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition, founded by San Francisco bookseller & poet Beau Beausoleil in the weeks after the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad’s center for publishing and literature, includes broadsides, artist books, prints and an anthology of essays and poetry (PM Press, 2012). Since 2007, the work has been exhibited at venues around the world.’