Iraqi Ambassador visits Stanford for Hoover Institution conference on Saddam-era documents
His Excellency Lukman Faily, Ambassador of The Republic of Iraq to the United States, visited Stanford on Monday in advance of attending a conference at the Hoover Institution related to the modern history of Iraq. The conference, entitled “Totalitarianism in Saddam’s Iraq: Documents as a Window to a Dictatorship,” is centered around a set of […]Nitish Kulkarni of The Stanford Daily reports:
His Excellency Lukman Faily, Ambassador of The Republic of Iraq to the United States, visited Stanford on Monday in advance of attending a conference at the Hoover Institution related to the modern history of Iraq.
The conference, entitled “Totalitarianism in Saddam’s Iraq: Documents as a Window to a Dictatorship,” is centered around a set of documents housed at the Hoover Institution that were originally taken from the Headquarters of the Ba’ath Party in Baghdad in 2003. Faily will deliver the conference’s keynote address. The conference will also feature talks and discussions with some of Stanford’s resident experts on Iraqi affairs and United States relations to the Middle East. The Honorable Raid Juhi, the former Iraq National Tribunal judge, will also speak at the conference.
