Malka Al Saadi and Mutaz Al Mudaris

Growing up in a religiously, ethnic, and culturally diverse community in Baghdad, Iraq, Malka Al Saadi (b. 1941) became a prominent  obstetrician-gynecologist, and a department head at Saddam College of Medicine. Mutaz Al Mudaris (b. 1973), her second son, became an agricultural engineer, and having learned English as a child in Great Britain, also worked as a translator for Iraqi Youth TV. Forced to flee to Jordan because of threats against their lives during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, they immigrated to the United States in 2009. In this inervuew they talk about their lives in Iraq through three wars, the collapse of their homeland after the U.S. invasion in 2003, and their new lives in Philadelphia, which reminds them of Baghdad.