Carole Basri is President of the Corporate Lawyering Group LLC and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in New York. Basri is also a film director and producer. Searching for Baghdad: A Daughter’s Journey, released in 2002, depicts the filmmaker’s quest for her Baghdadi heritage. In 2005, she completed The Last Jews of Baghdad: End of an Exile, Beginning of a Journey, which documents the escape of over 160,000 Iraqi Jews between 1940 and 2003. From July 2003 to July 2004, she was a member of the Iraqi Reconstruction Development Council of the Provisional Authority. Since then, she has given numerous talks about anti-corruption and transparency issues in Iraq and the Middle East.

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Searching For Baghdad: A Daughterís Journey

The Iraqi Women’s Educational Institute