Book Signing: Iraqi Women of Three Generations

Iraqi Women of Three Generations
Challenges, Education, and Hopes for Peace

Book Signing and Presentation
with Sister Martha Ann Kirk

100 color photos; stories from 23 families,112 pages, $17

Iraqi Women of Three Generation is published by peaceCENTERbooks.

Stories of Iraqi women’s resilience, courage, and compassion have wisdom which can encourage understanding and healing across cultures and religions. Six years after the 1988 massacres of more than 180,000 people in Northern Iraq, Turkish Muslims quietly began schools to give children hope and promote peace. The teachers were inspired by Fethullah Gülen, an Islamic scholarwho encourages education which builds diversity, justice, and peace.

From 10:30—11:30 there will be a free film showing of Love is a Verb”   by  Terry Spencer Hesser, winner of multiple Emmy Awards    Love Is A Verb is the first feature-length documentary about the Gϋlen or Hizmet movement, and its inspiration the Islamic leader Fethullah Gϋlen, a man whom TIME Magazine named as one of the most influential leaders in the world in 2013.  Terry Spencer Hesser has spent three years developing this documentary. She and her team traveled to 6 countries -United States, Turkey,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Iraq and Somalia – capturing the spirit of the movement through personal stories and interviews.  Ashley Judd narrates the film. Some of Sister Martha Ann Kirk’s research with Iraqi women is shown in the documentary LOVE IS A VERB.