Dr. Dahlia Wasfi

Dr Dahlia Wasfi was born in the United States in 1971 to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father, after graduating from Swarthmore College with a BA in Biology in 1993, she earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 but left medicine in 2002 Dr Wasfi has made two trips to Iraq to visit her extended family since the 2003 "Shock and Awe" invasion, including a three month stay in Basrah in the spring of 2006 She is an activist in support of ending the US-led and US-funded occupations (military and economic) of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine.

La industria agrícola de Irak fue saqueada, sus agricultores devastados, pero todavía está libre de semillas transgénicas

Cuando un videoclip de una presentación de 2008 sobre la industria de semillas de Irak se volvió viral a principios de este año, la Dra. Dahlia Wasfi se vio inundada de preguntas e inquietudes de los espectadores reflexivos. Aquí, proporciona aclaraciones y actualizaciones sobre la situación en Irak.

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi
Por Dr. Dahlia Wasfi
An Iraqi corn broker walks through his supply while preparing it to be shipped to retail markets Monday, Jan. 5, 2004 in a village north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

DOVER, Delaware -- I delivered a presentation about Iraq at the Green Festival in Chicago in May 2008. In that presentation, “Ain’t Nothin’ Green About the Green Zone: The Impact of War and Occupation on Iraqi Farmers,” I discussed the history of farming in ancient Mesopotamia and the harm wrought upon modern-day Iraq’s agricultural system by the

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