Baghdad: A Doctor’s Story

Thursday, February 7, 7pm – The Evergreen State College – Lecture Hall 1
The Rachel Corrie Foundation is a co-sponsor of The 5th Annual Middle East Film Festival: Origins, Exile, Refuge at The Evergreen State College January 30 to February 13, 2008. The festival is presented by Students Educating Students About the Middle East (SESAME) and has as its aim “to educate and motivate the Evergreen and greater Olympia community.”

Tonight’s Film and Speaker are:

Baghdad: A Doctor’s Story (Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone)

(Iraq, 2007, 39 min)

Doctor Omer Salih Mahdi, an ER doctor at Al Yarmouk during the invasion, brings camera crews through the inundated hospital to document the extent of the violence and casualties that the invasion and occupation have engendered. The film first appeared on BBC with the title Baghdad: a Doctor’s Story, with the “doctor” remaining anonymous. The film was recently released on HBO with the new title Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone, after Omer and his family left Iraq.

2007 International Emmy Award for news and current affairs.

Guest Filmmaker: Dr. Omer Salih Mahdi

Dr. Omer Salih Mahdi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1977 and graduated from medical school in 2001. He ceased practicing medicine in 2005 and began working as with NPR and the BBC. He left Iraq with his family in 2007 for Syria after numerous attacks on members of his family. He is now studying Journalism at Ball State University in Indiana.

Sponsored by Evergreen Pre-Health Society

7:00pm Lecture Hall 1

( click here for the complete film festival schedule )