SAVE THE DATE : {Wednesday January 11th, 2017}
*Premium Members Only Event*
Luncheon with Kurdish Representative to the United States
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman
“The Rising Voice of the Kurds”
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States of America.
Key to her role are strengthening ties between Kurdistan and the United States, advocating her government’s position on a wide array of political, security, humanitarian, economic, and cultural matters and promoting coordination and partnership. Prior to her US appointment in 2015, Ms. Abdul Rahman was the High Representative to the United Kingdom. She was elected to the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 2010.
Before her career in public service, Ms. Abdul Rahman worked as a journalist for 17 years in Britain and Tokyo. Her late father, Sami Abdul Rahman, was a veteran of the Kurdish freedom movement, joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1963 and playing a critical leadership role in the Kurdish and Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein’s regime. He held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government and General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Sami Abdul Rahman was killed alongside his elder son Salah and 96 others in a twin suicide bombing in 2004.
Venue: Darya Restaurant at SOUTH COAST PLAZA
South Coast Plaza, 3800 S Plaza Dr, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Date: Wednesday January 11th, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM Registration
$50 Student/ $55 Premium Member/ $70 Guests of Premium Member / $105 Non-Premium Member
