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U.S., Iraqi School Teacher Create Peace Bridge for Students from Brooklyn to Baghdad

Three years ago, Brooklyn school teacher Bruce Wallace created a project to teach students about the people on the “other side” of the Iraqi war and to create a peace bridge between the two sides. For years Wallace and Iraqi Romance literature teacher Nesreen, as well as their students, corresponded by email. The Americans and Iraqis exchanged emails about their lives, war and growing up in Brooklyn and Baghdad. Bruce Wallace and Nesreen join us in our firehouse studio. [includes rush transcript]

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