Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project

Sami Rasouli, Director of the Muslim Peacemaker Teams (MPT) and co-founder of IARP, was recently featured in an article, “Peace group speaker split between cultures.” To read the full article, click here.

DEKALB, IL – Sami Rasouli feels split between two cultures. He has decided the only way out is a narrow corridor called peace.

Rasouli, who was born in Najaf in 1952 and spent the first half of his life in Iraq before moving to the United States, recently spoke to members of the DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice and others at the Unitarian Universalist Church in DeKalb. He said he is 100 percent Iraqi and 100 percent American, as he speaks both languages, understands both cultures and is deeply committed to nonviolence.

In 2004, Rasouli returned to Iraq and worked with the non-governmental organization Christian Peacemaker Teams, where he started the parallel Muslim Peacemaker Teams.

“They look to what they consider threads of nonviolence in the Koran to promote salaam between all religions and ethnic groups in Iraq and around the world,” Rasouli explained.

To read the full article, click here.

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