Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is an internationally known speaker and activist. Born in the United States to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father, she lived in Iraq as a child, returning to the U.S. at age 5. After graduating from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Biology in 1993, she earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Dr. Wasfi has made two trips to Iraq to visit her extended family since the 2003 "Shock and Awe" invasion, including a three month stay in Basrah in the spring of 2006. She has brought her eyewitness account of life under occupation to 22 United States; Capitol Hill in D.C.; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; Madrid, Spain in 2007; and the 3rd International Iraq Conference in Berlin, Germany, in March 2008. Based on her experiences, Dr. Wasfi is speaking out in support of immediate, unconditional withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and the need to end the occupation “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” Her website (obviously) is www.liberatethis.com. 

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"Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to hear Dr. Dahlia Wasfi discuss health care implications of the U.S. war on Iraq. Of all the many presentations I have seen on Iraq, hers was the most powerful and entertaining...more"

--John Osmand, Socialist Worker

"I want to emphasize the need for Americans to recognize ongoing civilian casualties in Iraq, in addition to the loss of our own troops. In the safety of our home communities, there seems to be too little regard for this horrendous aspect of the war. I am thankful to have heard Dr. Dahlia Wasfi speak about the human cost of the Iraq war at a recent Global Exchange program...more"

--Barbara Leighton, Newbury Park, California