Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace NPR correspondent Michael Goldfarb remembers his friend and translator Ahmad Shawkat--an Iraqi Kurd who was tortured under Saddam Hussein, and killed in Mosul after Saddam was overthrown.
» Listen to Michael Goldfarb's radio documentary "Ahmad's War."

Events: Michael Goldfarb will be reading and signing books
Wednesday, April 26 at 6 pm
Columbia University Bookstore
2920 Broadway at West 114th Street

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