American University of Iraq-Sulaimani Shakespeare Company
Performing in the 2012 Green Show Tuesday, July 3rd; Thursday,
July 5th; Saturday, July 7th and Sunday, July 8th.  A daring
troupe of student Shakespeareans from Iraq!  AUIS Shakespeare
Company is a group of actors who, last spring, performed an
English-language production of Shakespeare in a public Iraqi
theater.   AUIS Shakespeare Company on Community: Shakespeare
Iraq is a group of students from the American University of
Iraq, Sulaimani. They are a mix of North and South, Sunni and
Shia, Arab and Kurd - representing extremely different
communities in an astoundingly diverse nation. Southern Iraq is
largely Arab-inhabited and controlled. The North is the same for
the Kurds. The two groups have a bitter history of enmity, and a
tense present in a country that still strives for peace and
stability. Last year, Shakespeare Iraq mounted the first English
language Shakespeare production in the country's history. It was
performed by Arabs and Kurds in a p