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Romeo and Juliet cast, RAF Union School, Hinaidi, 1935

Place: Baghdad · today Iraq
Date: 1935

The costumed cast of Romeo and Juliet, staged in Assyrian in 1935 by students of the RAF Union School at Hinaidi camp near Baghdad. The principal, Rabi Yacoub Bet-Yacoub, who translated the play, sits in costume in the first row, third from left.

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Assyrian Foundation of America, Nineveh Magazine vol. 20 no. 4 (1997)

Romeo and Juliet cast, RAF Union School, Hinaidi, 1935

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