Episode 118: Healing Deep Wounds: Enlightening People about the

Episode 118: Healing Deep Wounds: Enlightening People about the Past and the Present (Saad Eskander)

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Saad Eskander, former National Archivist of Iraq, speaking to us from Iraqi Kurdistan, tells an inspiring story about his work running his nation's archives and his struggle to repatriate national records taken by the US government and even journalists, and he explains how archives can show us a way to the truth and toward a better and more just world.

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