Book Signing: “Ungovernable Life” at Dawawine
Ungovernable Life, by Omar Dewachi, published by Stanford University Press, presents the untold story of the rise and fall of Iraqi “mandatory medicine”, and of the destruction of Iraq itself.
About the book
Iraq’s healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq’s political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of U.S.-led sanctions and invasions. Since the British Mandate, Iraqi governments had invested in cultivating Iraq’s medical doctors as agents of statecraft and fostered connections to scientists abroad. In recent years, this has been reversed as thousands of Iraqi doctors have left the country in search of security and careers abroad.
Q&A and discussion will be open in both Arabic and English.
