Realizing the Potential of Iraq’s Women
October 1, 2010 in News and Updates
Amideast Annual Report 2010
As Iraq rebuilds and recovers from years of conflict and turmoil, it has faced an acute shortage of engineers and scientist to manage its extensive reconstruction and development needs. Iraqi women have by tradition been among the countries top professionals, until the recent past. The Iraqi Women’s Fellowship Foundation provides Iraqi women faculty with first-rate US higher education in engineering and applied science to enable them to take leadership roles in the rebuilding or their country.