Iraqi Universities Struggle to Rebuild the "House of Knowledge"

Autor/in	Gray, Mary
Titel	Iraqi Universities Struggle to Rebuild the "House of Knowledge"
Quelle	In: Academe, 90 (2004) 5, S.25-28 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2946
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Geometric Concepts; Air Transportation; Nongovernmental Organizations; Iraq + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementare Geometrie; Irak
Abstract	The sign, "Hawler International Airport," greeted the author and her fellow passengers as their six-seater plane landed in July 2003 on a strip of concrete in the middle of an Iraqi field. Fortunately, the approach to this improvised airfield was direct, not like the spiraling in and out of Baghdad and Basra required to avoid possible hostile fire. Waiting were two vehicles, one from Research Triangle Institute, a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the other from the Coalition Provisional Authority, the military entity that governed Iraq until the handover of authority to a transitional Iraqi government in June 2004. Arrivals at the airport encountered little: no buildings, no immigration, no customs, no X-ray machines--nothing but unrelenting 120-plus-degree heat. In this article, the author shares what has changed in Iraq two years since her previous visit. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10