Greetings from Suleimanya

By
Eddie Silva
on July 7, 2008 12:43 PM |

Last summer Marc Thayer, who is VP for Education and Community Partnerships of the SLSO, traveled to Erbil in northern Iraq to teach music workshops to musicians from all over the war-torn nation. He submitted regular posts to the slso blog, which made for fascinating reading as Marc brought a fresh perspective on a people trying to re-discover normality under the most extreme circumstances.

Marc returned to Iraq this week, this time to Suleimanya, near the Iranian border. He's submitting his dispatches to the Saint Louis Beacon, the new online newspaper for the River City, which I will link to as they arrive. In this edition you will meet Alan Salih and Zana Jalil, who will be studying at Saint Louis University this coming school year. Here's "Letter from Iraq."

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