Noura Post-Play Discussion with Hawra Alnabi

Responding to the Iraqi and Iraqi American identities of the characters, the Guthrie is partnering with the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project, a local nonprofit that brings together Iraqis and Americans to learn from each other in friendship.

Guthrie Director of Community Engagement Rebecca Noon will be in conversation with IARP member Hawra Alnabi. Hawra is an Iraqi American who was born in the village of Al-Fahood in southern Iraq. In 1991, her family joined the uprising against Saddam Hussein and was forced to flee for safety. After living at a refugee camp in northern Saudi Arabia with 30,000 other families for five years, her family came to the U.S. in 1996 when Alnabi was 8 years old. On April 7, 2003, two days before the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, she became a U.S. citizen. Alnabi completed her B.A. in Human Resource Management and A.A.S. in Financial Management in 2012. She has worked in education and with nonprofit organizations, and she currently homeschools her 11-year-old son.