Carole Basri

Heritage	Daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees
Education	B.A., Barnard College; J.D., NYU School of Law
Today	Lawyer, visiting law professor, and filmmaker
Expertise	History of Iraqi Jews, corporate compliance, Iraq reconstruction
Films	Four documentaries on Iraqi Jewry, 1999 to 2020
Speaks to	Universities, film festivals, synagogues, and media

Carole Basri is the daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees. Her grandfather built the Frank Iny School, the last Jewish school operating in Baghdad. She graduated from Barnard College and NYU School of Law, where she was on the National Moot Court Team, and went on to serve as assistant counsel to the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee and as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.

A leading voice in corporate compliance, Carole taught at Fordham Law School from 2010 to 2018, where she helped create its LLM in Corporate Compliance, and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is a visiting professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law and Pericles Law School. In 2003 she joined the State Department's Future of Iraq Project and then worked in Baghdad on anti-corruption and transparency.

With filmmaker Adriana Davis, Carole has produced four documentaries on Iraq's Jewish community: The Life of Frank Iny (1999), Searching for Baghdad (2002), The Last Jews of Baghdad (2005), and Saving the Iraqi Jewish Archives (2020). Her films have screened at festivals and on PBS, and she has commented on Iraqi elections and the constitution for MSNBC, CNN, FOX, and Al Iraqiya. She shares this history with warmth and depth.