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by Alejandro Hernández on May 22, 2025

(October 25, 2004) Ali Ramadan, an Iraqi lawyer from Basra, is working on grassroots democracy building.(Photo by ELLEN JASKOL)

Iraqi refugee Jaafar Al Saad rides the train home from English as a Second Language class at Emily Griffith Opportunity School. (JUDY DEHAAS/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) **

(October 25, 2004) Hayder Abdulkarim, an Iraqi doctor who volunteered with Middle East Council of Churches in Iraq to provide humanitarian assistance during the war, and since then has been an activist on behalf of interfaith dialogue

Iraqi refugee Jaafar Al Saad, left, Somali refugee (unknown) and Bhutanese refugee XXX, listen to their classmates' talk about their English As A Second Language assignment in class at the Emily Griffith Opportunity School. (JUDY DEHAAS/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS)

Shaul Gabbay is going to become an American citizen Thursday June 20, 2007. He's Iraqi by birth, but was among up to 1 million Jews expelled in the early '50s who ended up in Israel. He's executive director of the Institute for the Study of Israel

(Colorado Springs, Colo., 12/2/ 2004) Iraqi veterinarian Farah Murrani is at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo observing and learning about the way US zoo's care for their animals and run their zoos.

Iraqi refugee Jaafar Al Saad looks out of the window of his Denver apartment 11/7/2008 where he and his family have lived for the four months they have been in Denver. They were refugees living in Jordan and were resettled in Denver

Soud Al Taai, Jaafar Al Saad (far right), and their daughters Zainab, 6, and Nour, 4, moved to Denver, July 10, 2008, from Aman, Jordan, where they were refugees from Iraq for six years. They left during the first Iraqi war. (JUDY DEHAAS)

David Kazzaz, of Denver, has advised one of Iraq's political parties. He left Iraq at age 25.

After voting in the Iraqi election, Ahmad Dizayee, bottom center, celebrates at a post-election feast at the home of Kurdish friends in San Diego. Dizayee traveled from Lakewood to Irvine, Calif., to vote Saturday. The California polling place was the only one west of the Mississippi River.

Ahmad Dizayee of Lakewood Colorado changes planes Friday night in Seattle on his way to San Diego to stay with friends there to vote in the Iraq elections in Irvine, California on Saturday.

Artist Halim Al-Karim recently moved to Denver from Amsterdam but grew up in Iraq, leaving behind the brutality of the brutality of Saddam Hussein. Al-Karim has an exhibit entitled "Passage to Sumer" at the Robischon Gallery in LoDo.

Iraqi-born artist Halim al-Karim stands among his fiber-panel "soul layers" at the Robischon Gallery.

Natalie Homsi joins her congregation in prayer during the Dedication and Consecration ceremonies at St. Rafka Maronite Church in Lakewood, CO Sunday March 18, 2007.A local congregation of Middle Eastern Christian immigrants -- from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon

Soud Al Taai reads an e-mail from her sister on a computer in the Denver Public Library's Virginia Village Branch where she corresponds with her family in Iraq. She and her family go to the library every Saturday, where they play children's computer game

Thorton, Colo., January 27, 2004- Handrin Ismail (top left) with his daughter Valla Ismail (top center) wife, Bayan Ismail, and father Salah Ismail (bottom in chair). All are from Erbil, Kurdistan in northern Iraq.

Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni attends a luncheon at the Denver Country Club on Sunday. Kazerooni, a former prisoner in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, said Saddam's execution will not help the crisis in Iraq long term.

Abu-Omar Almubarac, born in Iraq, Founder, Director & Agent of the Al-Muslims Services Center, poses for a portrait at his home on Thursday, May 6, 2004. (PHOTO BY

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