Iraqi National Assembly member at McGill

Women's rights activist, humanitarian, physician and member of the Iraqi National Assembly, Dr Rajaa H. Khuzai will be at McGill University on Thursday, November 11, to discuss the challenges facing Iraqi women and students before and after Saddam Hussein.

Dr Khuzai, an obstetrician and gynecologist, was one of two women who served on the former Iraqi Governing Council. She is President of the Women's Organization in Diwaniah, founder of the Women's Health Centre in Baghdad and the Widows' Care Organization.

Dr Khuzai is traveling through North America with her neurosurgeon husband and pharmacology student daughter presenting lectures. Her McGill talk is entitled "Before and after Saddam: Challenges facing women and students in Iraq."

Dr Khuzai's visit to McGill is sponsored by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women.

What: Iraqi national assembly member and humanitarian Rajaa Khuzai visits McGill to discuss the challenges facing women in Iraq.
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2004
Time: Lecture begins at 10:00 am; Dr Khuzai will be available for questions from the media at 11:30 am.
Where: Leacock Building, Room 232, 855 Sherbrooke Street West

Entrance via University main gate at Sherbrooke and McGill College or at building location, corner McTavish and Dr Penfield.