October 10, 2003

What American Scholars Should Do To Help Their Iraqi Counterparts

To the Editor:

As an American scholar who has performed humanitarian work in Iraq, I know that it will be relatively easy for that country to keep up in the sciences and applied sciences ("In Iraq, Daunting Tasks for Higher Education," September 12). Online resources are massive, and the value of computers, agriculture, medicine, and biology is obvious.

What Iraqi universities need most, however, is a radical transformation of the humanities and social sciences. It is these

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