The Metro: Iraqi American filmmaker explores Detroit’s cultural fault lines - WDET 101.9 FM

The Metro: Iraqi American filmmaker explores Detroit’s cultural fault lines - WDET 101.9 FM

Metro Detroit is home to one of the largest Iraqi communities outside the Middle East. Muslims and Chaldeans share streets, shops, and schools here. Together, they hold stories of displacement, of wars fought by the United States on their homeland, even as that same nation became their place of safety. Yet that closeness is cleaved by sharp differences, especially at the ballot box.  Many Chaldeans, rooted in Catholic tradition and conservative …