With Little More Than Hope, Iraqi Colleges Try to Rebuild
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Chronicle of Higher Education
By CHRISTINA ASQUITH
After 35 years of Saddam, educators contend with too much violence and too little money from the U.S. and its allies
Behind coils of barbed wire and stacks of sandbags, the new minister of higher education laid out his plans to the presidents of Iraqi universities. Saddam Hussein was imprisoned. The American advisers had departed. Iraqi academe was on its own feet.