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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

Christina Asquith - July 6, 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org
I recently sat down with Iraq’s new Minister of Education, Dr. Sami Al Mudhaffar to talk about education reform, terrorism and teaching democracy.

Christina Asquith - June 29, 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org
What has always scared Walla the most about the war is the noise. At night, she says, US missiles have landed in her neighborhood and shook the floor of the 2nd floor apartment she shares with her 3 siblings and parent. ‘My father works at night, and I call him and cry and say please daddy come home.’

Christina Asquith - June 15, 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org
Baghdad—The sound of the American administrators pulling out of Iraq is the sound of silence.

Christina Asquith - June 15, 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org 
Baghdad—As the US advisors to the Iraqi ministries pack their bags to leave Iraq June 30^th amidst much reflection, the renaissance of Iraq’s Ministry of Education stands as one of the great, and few, success stories of the post-war year.

Christina Asquith - May 4, 2009 , 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org 
Baghdad- A school classroom is perhaps the last place a US administrator would want a high ranking Baath Party member. But, according to a drastic reversal in policy taken in April, that's exactly where they're going.

Christina Asquith - April 20, 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org 
Headmaster Abbas Fadhil Hakeen has a headache, and it's not from the five mortars that just exploded with a thunder 300 meters from his boys' middle school.

Christina Asquith - April 13, 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org  
Baghdad-- Each day life becomes smaller here. I used to drive to Basrah, Iskandariyah and Suleimaniyah freely, interviewing teachers of all religions, tribes and levels of anti-American sentiment. Since the Shia uprising began on April 4^th followed by the US invasion of Fallujah on April 5th

Christina Asquith - April 6, 2004
Special Middle-East Correspondent for EducationNews.org           
Baghdad—Students tried to close down Baghdad University on Monday, again. Given the US’s ham-handed missteps this week, it wasn’t surprising that students were in an uproar. First the US soldiers had closed down the Shia newspaper, Al Hawzah; then arrested a popular cleric, then killed scores of Shia protesters in Najaf and Baghdad.