wafaa uses interactive technology to connect the fewer with the art piece. he does performance art in a fundamental way that i think is true about the best far to. the kind of art that challenges us, the challenges our comfort zone and breaks down barriers that is unsettling and provocative that begins to force us to consider different perspectives and if there is anything needed i think at this time, the time we live today i think it's having more americans to be challenged in that fundamental way but i think he also speaks to something else. that we live in a world of conflict, we live in a world of crisis now with a growing economic crisis we can consider what's happening in the region, the continuing suffering in iraq, the conflict is not over. mass displacement, millions have been forced from their homes and the ongoing challenges just as in his inaugural speech now president barack obama spoke to, he challenged us that we have to start considering national service. surface to model the ourselves but also to the world that we have to start to think abou

could we thank wafaa one more time? [applause] "shoot an iraqi" is for sale at the other end of busboys and poets. please percha said there, bring it back to this room for the signing. i'm going to get a table set up right here in the front to do the signing and we can line up right along the side of the broom and once again, thanks for coming to busboys and poets and have a great evening. >> thanks a lot guys for being so patient and being a great audience. [applause] >> wafaa bilal was born in iraq and lived there until 1992 when he moved to the united states. he is an assistant professor at new york university tisch school of the arts. to find out more visit wafaa bilal.com. >> tonight poncy c-span2's booktv, after words and dispatches from the war room, stanley greenberg on advising bill clinton, tony blair and nelson mandela. >> sunday on washington journal author richard wolf and his new book renegade, the making of a president. it is a biography of barack obama based on interviews conducted during the 2008 campai

human shield and we are going to defend you, and some people from the right start complaining and said wafaa not to ban these people taking the gun away and i said no, i mean, just they are members and you can direct the gone to the right and shoot and i said there are practicing their rights or should i say left. [laughter] yes, please. >> can you talking little bit more about the chat rooms and incite people may have gained about the burr by participating in the artwork? >> when you visit the site it was very playful, you know, a guy hawking himself in a room and you could really direct a gun and shoot at him with a paint ball and you know you are not going to kill him and it's a lot of fun. a lot of people start having parties. two or three different cities they start gathering on the computers and chat and shoot. so one incident when three girls from three different cities in england start shooting and having fun, but they didn't know what the project was about and they start asking questions, asking me questions, asking other people questions, and their action changed right away and the