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Rough cut screening of Dima Yassine’s Once Upon a Day in Tahir held at SFU

by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate Iraqi writer, filmmaker, and researcher Dima Yassine shared a rough cut of her short documentary Once Upon a Day in Tahir to a crowd at SFU Harbour Centre. The screening was hosted by professor Adel Iskandar (School of Communication) and followed by an open discussion. Before the film, she shared photos of her childhood in Mosul. She hadn’t been home to Iraq in decades, but she decided to book a flight home for September 2019. Just then, a revolution had broken out. She began to tear up, and paused. She explained that the Iraqi people were…

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