Farah Mokhtareizadeh first joined Voices in 2002 as a delegate of the Iraq Peace Walk, and then as a member of the Iraq Peace Team. She participated in several Voices campaigns including the Jubilee Iraq Fast in Geneva, Switzerland, the Occupation Project’s sit-in of congressional offices during the 2007 Iowa caucuses, and as a student with the Voices language study project in Damascus, Syria. Farah traveled to Lebanon with other Voices members to join an international solidarity campaign in protest of the bombing of civilians during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Lebanon. Farah holds a BA in Modern Middle East Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin. She is a PhD candidate at Trinity studying Islam and gender, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
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