Taking Back Iraq
A Screening with HBO's VICE at Lincoln Center
- In-Person
- David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Broadway between 62nd & 63rd Streets
New York, NY 10023 - 7:30PM 鈥 9PM EDT
For Iraq鈥檚 second largest city and its youngest citizens鈥攖he subjects of the latest episode from VICE on HBO鈥攚hat happens next is far from certain.
The city of Mosul has been central in the war to defeat Islamic State. In 2014, Iraqi troops surrendered Iraq鈥檚 second largest city to Islamic State, and last October, a U.S. supported coalition of Iraqi and Kurdish troops announced a long-awaited offensive to retake the city. In 鈥淭aking Back Iraq,鈥 VICE correspondent Aris Roussinos embedded with Iraqi forces on the road to Mosul as they began their assault on Islamic State’s last stronghold in Iraq.
The violence in Mosul and across the region has had lasting effects on the Iraqi population鈥攊t has become the youngest population in the world. The majority of people living there today have grown up in the shadow of the 2003 invasion, but with the Islamic State seemingly on the verge of defeat in the country, VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung travels to Iraq in “The Lost Generation” to see what the future looks like through the eyes of its youth.
Join 国产视频 NYC 补苍诲听VICE at Lincoln Center for a screening of 聽and for a conversation with the episode鈥檚 producers and international security experts on the realities of present-day Iraq and what鈥檚 at stake for a stable future.聽
PARTICIPANTS
Joe Langford聽
Editor, VICE on HBO
David McDougall聽
Producer, VICE on HBO
Beverly Chase聽
Supervising Producer, VICE on HBO
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