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Livestreamed on this page Thursday 14 June at 5 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 8 p.m. EDT (Washington DC) / 00:00 GMT (Fri, June 15) / 1 a.m. BST (Friday 15 June - London) / 3 a.m. AST (Friday 15 June - Baghdad) / 10 a.m. EST (Friday 15 June - Sydney).

Washington, D.C., United States
Thursday 14 June 2012

A New Iraqi Arabic adaptation of 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo at Georgetown University

Thursday 14 June 2012

Georgetown University presents a new Iraqui Arabic adaptation of 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 14 June at 5 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 8 p.m. EDT (Washington DC) / 00:00 GMT (Fri, June 15) / 1 a.m. BST (Friday 15 June - London) / 3 a.m. AST (Friday 15 June - Baghdad) / 10 a.m. EST (Friday 15 June - Sydney).

A new Iraqi Arabic adaptation of 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo
​Translated and directed by Waleed Shamil

Portrait of Layla Mohammed.
Layla Mohammed, actress

 

A portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women: a sexy painter, a radical Communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This new Arabic-language adaptation of Heather Raffo’s heartbreaking work delves into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the age-old war zone that is Iraq. Iraqi actress Layla Mohammed (pictured at left) performs this one-woman show in conjunction with a historic residency of delegates from Baghdad University at Georgetown University. The New Yorker has called 9 Parts of Desire “an example of how art can remake the world.”

Performed in Arabic with English supertitles at Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Supported by the National Theater / Ministry of Culture of Iraq in cooperation with Baghdad University.

Post Show Discussion, June 14th, 2012

 

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