Donny George Youkhanna,
former director of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad,
is now a visiting professor at Stony Brook University.
Donny and his family had to flee violent Iraq and have settled on bitchy Long Island.
Youkhanna, former director of the Baghdad Museum, lectures at 7 tonight on "The Looting of the Baghdad Museum: A Loss of a Nation's Memory," at the University of Houston's Hilton Hotel, 4800 Calhoun.
The event is sponsored by the Archeological Institute of America-Houston and the UH art history program. Tickets are $10-$20; call 281-497-7382 or visit AIA-Houston.com. Scratch that- students are free- everyone must have a student ID they can dig up, sob story they can tell or sneakers to don to jet in the rear entrance or side hall. Free event.
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