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American University Of Iraq - Sulaimani
American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) ( ku, زانکۆی ئەمریکی لە عێراق، سلێمانی; Arabic: الجامعة الأمريكية في العراق، السليمانية) is a not-for-profit, private institution for public benefit, located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The university offers an American-style liberal arts education to students from various economic, ethnic and religious backgrounds. History American University of Iraq, Sulaimani was founded in 2006 by a Board of Trustees as an institution dedicated to offering a comprehensive, American-style education in Iraq. The university, modeled after the famous private universities in Cairo and Beirut, was created amid the turmoil of war but in the relatively secure Kurdish region of Iraq. The purpose of founding such a university, according to Dr. Barham Salih was to stimulate reform in the Iraqi education system. Intellectuals such as Kanan Makiya, Fouad Ajami, and John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private University
Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public student loans, and grant (money), grants. Depending on their location, private universities may be subject to government regulation. Private universities may be contrasted with public university, public universities and national university, national universities. Many private universities are nonprofit organizations. Africa Egypt Egypt currently has 20 public universities (with about two million students) and 23 private universities (60,000 students). Egypt has many private universities, including The American University in Cairo, the German University in Cairo, the British University in Egypt, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Misr University for Science and Technology, Misr International University, Future University in Egypt and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Walker Ferguson
Bruce Walker Ferguson is an educator, entrepreneur and lawyer who is President of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani and a co-founder of Orbital Sciences Corporation. Early life and education Bruce Walker Ferguson was born in Washington D.C. in 1954. He attended schools in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Thailand, Kenya, Lebanon, New York, and New Hampshire, graduating in 1972 from Phillips Exeter Academy. After receiving an A.B. degree in Government and a Master of Education from Harvard in 1976, Ferguson was a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Delhi, India on a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship before returning to Harvard to complete a four-year J.D.-M.B.A. joint degree program. At Harvard Law School he served as an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following graduation Ferguson worked at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago as an attorney in the corporate and securities department, working on mergers and acquisitions and ventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Rodenbeck
Max Rodenbeck (born 1962) is a British/American journalist and author based in Delhi . He is South Asia Bureau Chief for ''The Economist'' magazine, where he has written on international affairs for more than 30 years. He was previously ''The Economist's'' Middle East Bureau Chief in Cairo from 2000-2015. He is the author of the critically acclaimed ''Cairo: The City Victorious'', regarded as one of the best single-volume biographies of the city available, and is a contributor to the ''New York Review of Books'', the ''New York Times'' and ''Foreign Policy'' magazine. He has been described as "one of the foremost experts on today’s Middle East". Early life and education Max Rodenbeck was born in Charlottesville, Virginia to a British mother and American father. His family moved to Cairo when he was 2 years old, and he was raised between Egypt, Britain and the US. Following boarding school in Massachusetts, he studied Arabic and Islamic History at the American University in Cai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad ( ps, ځلمی خلیل زاد, prs, زلمی خلیلزاد; born March 22, 1951) is an Afghan-American diplomat and foreign policy expert. Khalilzad was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to serve as U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation in September 2018. President Joseph R. Biden asked Khalilzad to continue in this position after the 2020 presidential election. Khalilzad resigned as U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation in October 2021. Khailzad was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations, serving in the role from 2007 to 2009. Khalilzad was the highest ranking Muslim-American in government at the time he left the position. Prior to this, Khalilzad served in the Bush administration as Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2004 to 2005 and Ambassador to Iraq from 2005 to 2007. Raised in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Khalilzad came to the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoshyar Zebari
Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, also simply known as Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled ''Hoshyar Zebari/Zibari'', Kurdish: ''Hişyar Zêbarî''; born 23 September 1953) is an Iraqi politician who formerly served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq in 2014 and also as the Minister of Finance until 2016. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 until 2014. Biography Zebari was born to a Kurdish family in Aqrah, a city of Duhok Governorate, Iraq and grew up in Mosul. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from The University of Jordan in 1976. He also earned a Master of Arts in Sociology of Development from the University of Essex, United Kingdom in 1980. While studying in United Kingdom, he led the Kurdish Students Society in Europe and also served as the chairman of the Overseas Student Committee from 1978 to 1980. He joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1979. In the 1980s, he fought as a member of the Peshmerga against the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein. He went o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salaam Dunk
''Salaam Dunk'' is a 2011 American documentary film directed by David Fine about an Iraqi university's women basketball program, spearheaded by a US-born instructor as coach. Synopsis The film follows the women's basketball team of The American University of Iraq – Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan for a full academic year. The players discover what it means to be students, athletes and friends in the difficult political, economic, cultural and ethnic/sectarian divide, and how basketball unites them around a game. The film follows the lives of some of the players, notably Laylan (team captain), Enji, Ola and Safa, and their basketball coach Ryan Bubalo, who is the university's contractual English language teacher. The film is a testament to the perseverance of a handful of young Iraqi women, and is a story of triumph in the face of chaos and adversity. Reception and awards The film gained mostly positive reviews. It also became part of the Nike, Inc., Nike Air Jordan, Jordans Rise Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees. Traditionally, the language of instruction is English. Founded in 1863, as Robert College, it was the first Higher education in the United States, American higher education institution founded outside the United States. Though under Turkish administration today, the university still maintains strong ties to the American educational system. Boğaziçi University consistently ranks as Turkey's top university and has the greatest number of applicants via the Turkish university entrance examinations, making it the most selective state university in Turkey.https://tanitim.boun.edu.tr/2019-taban-puanlari 2019 YKS SONUÇLARINA GÖRE BOĞAZİÇİ Ü ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9 Parts Of Desire (play)
''9 Parts of Desire'' ( ar, تسعة اجزاء من الرغبة) is a play written by Heather Raffo. In the original version, a single performer plays all nine characters. Heather Raffo herself has acted in productions of ''9 Parts of Desire''.Bernardo, Melissa Rose.Nine Parts Of Desire (2004 - 2004)" ''Entertainment Weekly''. October 29, 2004. Retrieved on April 12, 2014. , 10/2004, Issue 790, p. 77. Some productions opt to use multiple actors.Montoya, Maria C. and David Cuthbert.Theater Guy: Loyola stages Heather Raffo's nine-character monologue play." ''The Times-Picayune''. February 23, 2008. Retrieved on April 13, 2014. Joanna Settle directed the play's first productions. Michael Billington of ''The Guardian'' wrote that the play's "great virtue" "is that it not only deals with the plight of Iraqi women but forces us to confront the moral issues of war."Billington, Michael.Nine Parts of Desire" ''The Guardian''. Tuesday 5 August 2003. Retrieved on April 13, 2014. Melissa Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noor (play)
''Noor'' is a two-act play by Akbar Ahmed about the abduction of a young woman named Noor and her three brothers who represent currents inside modern Muslim communities: a Sufi, a secular government bureaucrat, and an angry fundamentalist. Characters ;Main characters: * Abdullah (oldest brother, professor, idealistic Sufi) * Daoud (middle brother, medical doctor, hardened religious literalist) * Ali (youngest brother, lawyer and government bureaucrat, relatively secular) * Father (Assad Hussain) * Auntie Fatima (father's sister) * Noor (youngest sibling, a bright college student) Secondary characters * Three soldiers * Sheikh Moinuddin * Disciple * Flunky * Fadel (truck driver) Plot Act 1 It is Ramadan. Daoud comes home and talks with his brother Abdullah. Soldiers of unknown background have abducted their younger sister Noor. Daoud is angry and blames Americans for this and most of the world's other woes. Abduallah urges calm and compassion. Ali returns and recounts the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve Angry Men (play)
''Twelve Angry Men'' is a play by Reginald Rose adapted from his 1954 teleplay of the same title for the CBS '' Studio One'' anthology television series. Staged in a 1964 London production, the Broadway debut came 50 years after CBS aired the play, on October 28, 2004, by the Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 328 performances. Characters and story The drama depicts a jury forced to consider a homicide trial. At the beginning, they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty, with a single dissenter of "undecided", who throughout the play sows a seed of reasonable doubt. The story begins after closing arguments have been presented in the homicide case, as the judge is giving his instructions to the jury. As in most American criminal cases, the twelve men must unanimously decide on a verdict of "guilty" or "not guilty". (In the justice systems of nearly all American states, failure to reach a unanimous verdict, a so-called "hung jury" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koç University
Koç University ( tr, Koç Üniversitesi) is a non-profit private university in Istanbul, Turkey. It started education in temporary buildings in İstinye in 1993, and moved to its current Rumelifeneri campus near Sarıyer in 2000. Koç University is ranked highest in Turkey according to the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 2022 QS World University Rankings. Koç University currently consists of Colleges of Social Sciences and Humanities, Administrative Sciences and Economics, Science, Engineering, Law, Nursing and Medicine. Koç University offers 22 undergraduate, 29 graduate and 30 PhD programs. The university is home to around 7,000 students. The university accepts international students from various countries and has an extensive network of over 250 partner-universities including University of California and other universities such as Northwestern University, Cornell University and Georgetown University. Founded in 1993, Koç University has become one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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