Reading , Pa.- Albright College will present the award-winning film, My Country, My Country, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 6 p.m. in Klein Lecture Hall. A discussion facilitated by Professor Geoffrey Schad, Ph.D., and Professor Irene Langran, Ph.D., will follow the showing of the film. This event is free and open to the public.

My Country, My Country, a film by Laura Poitras, chronicles the story of an Iraqi physician as the country prepares for the 2005 elections. The film follows the predicament and gradual descent of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spread democracy in the Middle East.

Klein Lecture Hall is located in the Center for the Arts on Albright’s campus at 13th and Bern Streets in Reading. For more information, or disabled assistance, please contact Irene Langran, Ph.D., at 610-921-7570.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,650 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.