Personal life

Born in 1971 in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 to a Jewish-American mother and Muslim Iraqi father, Dr. Wasfi spent part of her early childhood living in Iraq under Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

. She returned to the US at age 5, earned her B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College in 1993 and her medical degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1997.

Activism

Wasfi visited family in Iraq in 2004 and 2006, and, based upon her account of Iraqi civilian life, became an advocate for “immediate, unconditional withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.” She has testified in the Iraq Forum of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

Congressional Progressive Caucus

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is the largest caucus within the Democratic caucus in the United States Congress with 83 declared members, and works to advance progressive issues and positions....

  and the Third International Iraq conference in Berlin, as well as many universities in the U.S. and Canada.

From Dr. Wasfi's April 27, 2006 address to the Congressional Progressive Caucus:

External links

• Dr. Dahlia Wasfi speaks at Iraq forum, YouTube
• liberatethis.com, run by Dahlia Wasfi
• Truth hurts, Lies kill. Real truth behind the phony wars by Dr. Dahlia wasfi on Youtube.
• Truth hurts, Lies kill. Real truth behind the phony wars by Dr. Dahlia wasfi on Youtube, available without being forced to identify yourself to the Googleplex