American Herro is a biographical documentary film

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 about Herro Mustafa

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Herro K. Mustafa is an American diplomat.Mustafa's family story was the subject of the documentary film American Herro. She is multilingual and speaks English, Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish and Greek.-Early life and education:...

, and American

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 diplomat

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 and senior adviser on the Middle East

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 to Vice President

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 Joe Biden

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The documentary covers Herro's early childhood as a Kurdish

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-Muslim

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 refugee from Iraq

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 as she fled with her family from Iraqi Kurdistan

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 while under Saddam Hussein

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's regime to Minot, North Dakota

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, as well as her academic success and successful career as a diplomat stationed in Bosnia, Turkey, Iraq, and elsewhere. The documentary features home video footage of Mustafa's family in Iraq, photography from her childhood, and modern interviews with family, coworkers, and her trip back to Iraq.