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Hashim Al-Tawil is professor and chair of the Art History Department at Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan. Al-Tawil received a Ph.D. in Art history from the University of Iowa (93), MA in Art Education (printmaking), Hartford University, CT(78), and BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq (73). He is an associate Director of "The Pluralism Project” and director of Education, University of Michigan-Dearborn, an affiliate of the parent project at Harvard University since 1999. This project is researching the growing religious diversity in the Unites States with a special view to new immigrants in the Metro Detroit Area. Al-Tawil Served on the faculty of the Academy of Fine arts, University of Baghdad, Iraq and the cultural program of the Arab American Council in Michigan (ACC). He is an internationally recognized artist, scholar, and museums consultant, researching in the history, art, and culture of the Middle East. He is an active artist who has been showing his work in Europe, the Middle East and the US since 1974, and his works are among museums and private collections worldwide. Hashim Al-Tawil current focus is on the loss and destruction inflicted on Modern Iraqi art immediately after the US invasion to Iraq through two major fields: the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, and public monuments throughout Iraq.