May 29, 2009

Iraq Looks for U.S. Partners in New Scholarship Program

By Beth McMurtrie

Los Angeles

The government of Iraq is moving ahead with the Iraq Education Initiative, a new scholarship program that will fast-track qualified Iraqi students to study in the United States.

Speaking to a packed room here on Thursday at the annual conference of Nafsa: Association of International Educators, Zuhair A.G. Humadi, one of the key architects of the program, said his government was looking for more American universities to join the effort.

The program is being led

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