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...Death to the Dean Abdul Sattar!” Islamic militants chanted as the Shakespeare scholar fled through the back door of his Baghdad office building...
...There are no proper classes in Baghdad,” he said. “The Ph.D.s have fled or been killed...
...Anbar Province, a joint civilian-military group that supports the provincial and local governments in the primarily Sunni region in western Iraq. Munir served as the liaison between Ramadi—Anbar’s capital—and Baghdad, where Anbar’s provincial government had fled to escape insurgent violence...
...visit friends in their homes without endangering them - foreigner coming to the neighborhood? Can I take a boat ride down the Tigris? Can I go to the street and buy books from the second-hand book market. Are my friends still there? Many of them had fled to Jordan this year. Are they coming back? Those who remained, are they more hopeful of their future? I want to get a very tactile and textured sense of what life is like in Baghdad now. Two years ago I wrote a cover story entitled Life in Hell which served its exact purpose...
...have a drain of intellectual capital, which is a much bigger problem. The people who've left are the exact kinds of people Iraq needs to rebuild itself. You need to have your doctors, engineers, university professors to rebuild your country from chaos. Those are the people who have fled...