Oasis in Iraq: Universities Flourish in Kurdistan

Campuses are packed with students in a region largely untouched by war

By ZVIKA KRIEGER

Irbil, Iraq

No security guards stand watch at the front gate of Salahaddin University. Young women and men mingle freely in the courtyard between classes, while Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds sit together in the cafeteria sipping cola....