The Destruction of Iraq's culture and education. Resources on the assassinations of Iraq's academics

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340 academics and 2,334 women killed in 3 years, Human Rights Ministry says, 02 July 2008
Scholars Under Siege, May 2008
Iraq's deadly brain drain, 11 May 2008
Violence in Iraq disrupts lives and education, 21 April 2008	5
Iraqi children desperate to learn in ruined schools, 21 April 2008	5
Business as usual, 02 April 2008.	5
The Iraqi Brain Suction - Imad Khadduri, 01 April 2008	5
Iraq's Collapsing Education - IOL, 26 March 2008.	5
Iraq Lost 5500 scientists since the Anglo-American Invasion - 21 March 2008	5
Iraq Press Roundup - 20 March 2008	5
Iraq's New Insurance Policy Against Brain Drain - 11 March 2008	5
Iraq Brains Turn Laborers - AMSI 21 Feb 2008.	5
Iraq: The Road to Learning Can Be Dangerous - Dahr Jamail, 12 Feb 2008	5
Michael Schwartz, The Iraqi Brain Drain - Tomgram, 10 Feb 2008.	4
Seven Questions: The De-Bremerification of Iraq - Foreign Policy, Jan 2008.	5
Iraq’s Scholars Reluctant to Return - IWPR, 18 Jan 2008.	4
Iraqi Intellectuals in Exile - 20 Dec 2007	5
Mossad mission: Murder Iraqi scholars - 10 Dec 2007.	4
Iraqi pharmacists contend with violence, murder and uncertainty - 01 Dec 2007 [PDF]	5
Gunmen kill school principal in Baghdad, 15 Nov 2007.	5
A Civil War On Campus - Newsweek, 12 Nov 2007.	4
Violence forces scholars to become refugees - USA Today, 11 Oct 2007.	4
300 Iraqi Scientists Martyred, 3000 Migrated After Occupation: Parliament Committee Chief - 09 Oct 2007	4
Potential teachers…disaster to education, females more qualified - 09 Oct 2007.	4
Back to school: Education sector struggling to progress - AswatalIraq, 20 Sept 2007.	4
Cash injection for Iraqi scientist rescue fund, 20 Aug 2007.	5
Iraq's Elite Fleeing in Droves - Der Spiegel, 20 Aug 2007.	4
Gates Foundation to help Iraqi academics escape persecution - FT, 16 Aug 2007.	4
Iraqi refugee families need help to educate their children - UNHCR, 31 July 2007.	4
Fellowships for Threatened Scholars from Iraq - Institute of International Education (IIE), 31 July 2007.	4
UNHCR deputy chief urges Iraqi refugees to send children to school - UNHCR, 19 July 2007.	4
Saving Iraq’s Scholars, 17 Juny 2007.	5
Ministry to insure and protect professors - Irin, 08 July 2007.	4
Samarra security crackdown making life difficult for students - Irin, 28 June 2007.	4
In 2004 – with Saddam gone – 27 Iraqi students started their degree course full of hope. Today just 7 will sit their finals - Times Online, 23 June 2007.	4
Cheated of Future, Iraqi Graduates Want to Flee - NYT 06 June 2007	5
Iraqi scientists suffer both here and at home, THES 01 June 2007.
Extremists threaten new gov’t Internet project in universities - Irin, 27 May 2007.	3
Death Threats and Academia in Iraq - Der Spiegel 23 May 2007.	4
Lives in limbo - Nature, 22 May 2007.	4
The US war and occupation of Iraq. The murder of a society - WSWS, 22 May 2007.	4
Iraq's Universities Near Collapse - The Chronicle Of Higher Education, 18 May 2007.	3
The decapitation of secular Iraq - 15 May 2007.	4
Lessons in war: Iraqi students brave violence, teacher shortages and damaged schools - IHT, 14 May 2007.	4
The Flight From Iraq - Nir Rosen, 13 May 2007	5
Doctor father who was never to see his son - Sunday Times, 29 April 2007.	3
Education under attack - A global study on targeted political and military violence against education staff, students, teachers, union and government officials, and institutions, UNESCO, 27 April 2007 [PDF]
Despite Baghdad "Security" plan: increase in assassinations of Iraqi academics - Dirk Adriaensens, BRussells Tribunal, 19 April 2007.	3
Iraq’s education system on the verge of collapse - Dirk Adriaensens, BRussells Tribunal, 18 April 2007.	3
Blood on Textbooks: Campuses Under Fire - 16 April 2007	3
Bombings rattle classroom, unite students - CNN, 13 April 2007.	4
Hassan Khalid Hayderi, Iraq “Either you give us good marks or you will die" - IRIN, 05 April 2007.	3
A searing assault on Iraq's intellectuals - LATimes, 25 March 2007.	4
Iraqi Scholars fighting for an education - BBC, 24 March 2007.	3
No easy way in for Iraq's asylum academics - SciDev.Net, 22 March 2007.	4
Iraq: Schools and Universities Deserted for Fear of Violence - UN news, 15 March 2007.	4
Death batters at the doors of Iraq’s universities - 28 Feb 2007.	3
Woman Bomber Kills 41 at Baghdad College – ABC News, 26 Feb 2007.	4
Iraqi Professors Targeted in Baghdad Security - 21 Feb 2007.	3
‘Security forces’ rob Baghdad academics - The Times - 17 Feb 2007.	3
Bomber strikes near Baghdad college - Al Jazeera, 13 Feb 2007.	3
Diala University professors suffering fears of physical liquidation – 12 Feb 2007.	4
Iraqi Education System Caught in Crossfire of Continued Conflict, 12 Feb 2007.	5
Amidst Iraq Chaos, Intellectuals Take Flight - Epoch Times, 08 Feb 2007.	4
Iraqi Education System Caught in Crossfire of Continued Conflict - PBS, 08 Feb 2007.	3
Chaos hastens Iraq brain-drain, 01 Feb 2007.	5
Iraq's Brain Drain Leaves Hopeless Legacy - 01 Feb 2007.	4
Violence escalates against students and teachers in Iraq - WSWS, 31 Jan 2007.	3
University Failures Threaten Iraq's Professionals - NPR, 29 Jan 2007	3
Bombing latest blow to colleges - Wash. Times, 19 Jan 2007.	3
College students flee a system under siege- 18 Jan 2007.	5
Protect Iraq from a disastrous braindrain - 18 Jan 2007.	4
Deaths top 100 in Baghdad bombings, shootings - CNN, 17 Jan 2007.	4
Double bombing kills 65 students at Iraqi university - The independent - 17 Jan 2007.	3
The exodus of academics has lowered educational standards - IRIN, 7 Jan 2007.	3
Iraq's academics targeted by militias - BBC, 05 Jan 2007.	3
Iraqi academics at grave risk - Education International, 01 Jan 2007.	3
Mandatory university attendance in unstable Iraq angers many - 20 Dec 2006.	3
Professors in penury - The Guardian, 12 Dec 2006.	3
2 College profs among 23 slain in Iraq - Denver Post, 8 Dec 2006.	4
Iraqi Professionals Targeted for Abduction, Murder - Antiwar.com, 07 Dec 2006.	3
Iraq's universities are in meltdown - Independent, 07 Dec 2006.	3
Professionals Targeted in Iraq - Electronic Iraq - 06 Dec 2006.	2
UCU calls on members to support Iraqi academics - 30 Nov 2006.	3
Iraq's violent 'brain drain' called a threat to future - Boston Globe, 30 Nov 2006.	3
Iraq's Deadliest Zone: Schools - Washington Post, 27 Nov 2006.	4
For better and for worse - 25 Nov 2006.	2
The war on intellectuals claims lives and hope - Sami Ramadani, THES, 24 Nov 2006.	3
Action Needed Over Detention of Iraqi Education Ministry Officials - BRussells Tribunal press release, 22 Nov 2006.	2
Iraq's education under siege, Dahr Jamail, 21 Nov 2006.	2
Murder, Fear Follow Iraqi Professors On Campus - 21 Nov 2006.	2
Genocide against Iraqi academics? - Al Jazeera.com, 19 Nov 2006.	3
They may look carefree, but this campus is now a battleground - Times, 17 Nov 2006.	4
Lecturing in the Iraqi war zone - Guardian, 17 Nov 2006.	2
Academics in Iraq: a vanishing breed? - 16 Nov 2006	3
Iraq: Brain drain poses threat to future - 16 Nov 2006.	2
In Iraqi Colleges, Fear for an Already Shrunken Realm – WP 16 Nov 2006	4
Scores of academics seized in mass kidnap - Guardian, 15 Nov 2006.	4
Education Ministry kidnappings reflect plight of Iraqi academics - SF Chronicle, 15 Nov 2006.	3
Ghosts of Jadiriyah. A survivor's testimony - Max Fuller, 14 Nov 2006.	3
SAR calls for urgent action to protect Iraqi higher education - SAR 14 Nov 2006.	3
Kidnappers Strike Iraqi Science - 14 Nov 2006.	4
IRAQ: Minister closes universities following mass kidnapping - IRIN, 14 Nov 2006.	4
Letter Regarding Murder of Two Professors - AAUP, 10 Nov 2006.	3
A Testimony Of An Iraqi Academic - BRussells Tribunal, Nov 2006.	2
Baghdad Bulletin: Death Stalks the Campus - Time, 02 Nov 2006.	2
Prominent Iraqi scientist killed by gunmen, 02 Nov 2006	5
Dr. Issam Al Rawi has been murdered - Dirk Adriaensens, BRussells Tribunal, 30 Oct 2006.	2
Dr. Issam Al Rawi, Sunni activist professor, killed in Iraq, 30 Oct 2006.	2
University Professors in Iraq and Death Anxiety, BRussells Tribunal, October 2006.	2
Iraq’s health crisis, brain drain, Workers World, 26 Oct 2006.	2
Iraqi intellectuals seeking exile - 18 Oct 2006.	3
Iraq's universities and schools near collapse as teachers and pupils flee - The Guardian, 05 Oct 2006.	3
Iraq Violence Leading to Academic Brain Drain - Aaron Glantz, 05 Oct 2006.

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