Ali Ramadan, a lawyer and democracy activist in Iraq, will meet with USC students at 6 p.m. Oct. 11 in Room 008 of the Moore School of Business as part of a speaking tour sponsored by the Iraq America Freedom Alliance.
Ramadan, who is from Basra, Iraq, is working on grassroots democracy building. He helped organize and monitored the Basra city council's first elections in 2004, and participates in local governing body meetings as an advisor and facilitator.
Immediately after the liberation of Iraq, from June 2003 to February 2004, Ramadan worked on school reconstruction projects and oversaw the distribution of educational supply kits to 1.5 million students, 50,000 teachers and 25,000 classrooms in the cities of Basra, Messan, Nassirya, and Mothana.
He will discuss Iraq's reconstruction and progress toward democracy and take questions from students. The Iraq America Freedom Alliance is a project of the non-profit, non-partisan Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
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