About the Program
Artist Wafaa Bilal talks about growing up in Iraq under rule of Saddam Hussein, his decision to move to the United States, and the killing of his brother by a missle fired from a U.S. military drone in 2004. In reaction to his brother's death, Mr. Bilal created an interactive, month-long exhibit in Chicago which allowed people from around the world, through a website, to shoot paintballs at him twenty-four hours a day. By the time the exhibit ended, Bilal had been shoot at over 60,000 times from people in over 130 countries. He spoke at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC.