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Fahim Fazli live
Date and Time
Tuesday Oct 17, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDTTuesday, October 17, 2017 7:00pm
Location
Rochester Opera House
Fees/Admission
$50 to $20
Contact Information
Roh Box Office
Send EmailFahim Fazli liveDescription
Veterans Count is proud to welcome actor, author and motivational speaker Fahim Fazli to the Rochester Opera House as part of their community speaker series. Fazli, who served as a linguist and interpreter for Hollywood and US Marines, will share his story with New Hampshire veterans and local community members, including his perspective on military operations in Afghanistan and observations on the region’s current affairs. He will be joined onstage by Retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Michael I. Moffatt who served as an infantry platoon commander, company commander, staff officer and educational program director during his USMC career. After the 9/11 attacks, he worked as a ground operations officer for General Tommy Franks at Central Command. He finished his career with a special assignment to Afghanistan in 2010, where he met Hollywood actor/Marine Corps Interpreter Fahim Fazli. Together, Fazli and Moffett wrote the award-winning memoir Fahim Speaks: A Warrior-Actor's Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back, released in early 2012. It received the Gold Medal for Biography from the Military Writers Society of America. Fahim Fazli is a man of two worlds: Afghanistan, the country of his birth, and America, the nation he adopted and learned to love. He is also a man who escaped oppression, found his dream profession, and then paid it all forward by returning to Afghanistan as an interpreter with the U.S. Marines from 2009-2010. Fazli enjoyed a privileged childhood until the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and came to the United States as a refugee in his teens. As a young adult he supported the resistance, and when he and his remaining family saw the opportunity they fled to Pakistan and eventually to the United States. Local radio host Jack Heath of New Hampshire Today will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the event. All proceeds will go to the Seacoast Chapter of Veterans Count.
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