Update on Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal and RPI

This is amazing to me and very reminiscent of the way the Miami Model screening in NYC was shut down due to code noncompliance, just a few weeks before the Republican National Convention.

From the Network Performance blog: UPDATE: Brian Holmes wrote: “… Thanks to all of you who wrote back (and especially, who wrote to RPI president Jackson) about this clash. Now you should know the latest: Wafaa Bilal’s show has been restaged in the nearby Sanctuary for Independent Media and guess what? The police has closed it on a building code technicality … (C)omplete story of the affair with links. All of this is going very far and looks like a true case of hysteria. The symbolic gap between a cosmopolitan outlook able to understand what is going on from an Ira(q)i point of view and a pure America first rejection of anything foreign is frightening to behold…” END UPDATE.