SCSU professor from Iraq to discuss situation there

St. Cloud State University Professor Abbas Mehdi, sociology and anthropology, will speak to a St. Cloud audience about the volatile situation in Iraq from the perspective of an Iraqi expatriate and an academic. Mehdi's background in management, organizations and sociology provide the analytical lens through which he presents his experiences and those of his friends and family still inside Iraq. The presentation, "Iraq: Democracy or Destruction? An Iraqi-American Perspective," will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in Stewart Hall on campus. The free event sponsored by the SCSU Cultural Diversity Program and the SCSU Department of Sociology and Anthropology is open to all. For more information call 320-308-3042