Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Subcommittee on International Human Rights.
I would like to welcome Dr. Romano. Dr. Romano is a Canadian professor at Missouri State University specializing in the Middle East, and in particular Iraq and the Kurdish community as well as political violence, including politicized Islam.
Dr. Romano, I know you're calling in today from Iraq, so I want to thank you for making the time to join us. I'm going to ask you to give us remarks for around 10 minutes. Then we'll open it up to the members of this committee for some questions and answers.
You can now proceed, Dr. Romano.