Rania, Iraqi Kurdistan: Duluth’s Newest Sister City

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Event Details

Learn about our newest sister city, Rania, Iraqi Kurdistan from Michele Naar-Obed, co-founder of the Duluth-Rania Friendship Exchange and co-chair of the Rania Sister City committee. Michele will provide a description and the context of the current situation of the Kurdish people. She will discuss how our sister city relationship can help us build on how the Duluth community would be able to make a difference through efforts like a library project, delegation exchanges through the sister city program, and people to people relationship building. 

A short video will be shown. Michele plans to return to Kurdistan in January 2017. 

There will be an opportunity to purchase prints and notecards from Anne Labovitz's Sister City Artwork Collection and to make a donation toward the Rania Library.

Event Type(s): Performance/Presentation
Age Group(s): Adults, Seniors