Ahmed AL Jaafari, Ph.D.
Scholar and writer
- PhD degree in Educational Administration and Policy, The State University of New York, Buffalo
- Master’s degree in Educational Administration and Policy, The State University of New York, Buffalo.
- Master’s degree in Educational Administration, Al Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq.
- Faculty member at Al Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
Articles: يارئيسي الجمهورية والوزراء انقذوا التربية والتعليم العالي
Professor Ali Al-Rifai, Ph.D.
Dr. Taher Al-Bakaa, Scholar
Dr. Taher Al-Bakaa is a visiting scholar at Harvard University. In 2004, he was named minister of higher education in Iraq. After 2003, Al- Bakaa was appointed president of Al-Mustansiriya. A year later, in the mid- 1990s, Al- Bakaa was chair of the history department at Al-Mustansiriya University, the second-largest university in Iraq.
“Life without hope has no value,” Al-Bakaa says. “He who loses hope cannot live. But to be optimistic you always have to see a light in the end of the tunnel.”
Articles: Views on Iraq’s higher education beyond 2003.
Denise Calabria
Communication and Public Affairs Specialist
Shakir Alousi, Painter
Dr. Montazer Kamel Mensoor
Researcher, biologist and public health specialist. Director of the International Center for Training, Research, and Development (ICTRD) in Baghdad.