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Books for Baghdad-Latest News
After four shipments of more than 55,000 textbooks and journals to universities in Iraq, we are saddened to report that "Books for Baghdad" books collection has been suspended for the time being due to lack of resources.
"Books for Baghdad" project has become a well known humanitarian project in Iraq and the demand on textbooks has increased. We have received many requests from the universities in Iraq asking us to support their education system. The fact is that we are a small organization and we have absolutely no extended funds to support the activity of this project. As a result, we are not able to satisfy the increasing demands and we cannot promise anything we can’t deliver. We would love to continue this project because we believe in it and we consider it a labor of love. We are waiting for the opportunity to come to allow us to restart book collections in the near future. However, other objectives of this project will continue, specifically helping the faculty in Iraq to establish collaborative work with the counterpart in the US. Books for Baghdad will continue to assist undergraduate and graduate students in finding a scholarship to come to the US and promoting partnerships with educational institutions in the United States.
Anyone who would like to contribute
books and other gifts should contact Dr. Al-Hamdani
(256-782-5801; sah@jsu.edu).
Cash contributions can be made to the JSU Foundation,
700 Pelham Road North, Jacksonville AL 36265. Visit: www.booksforbaghdad.org.
Dr. Safaa Al-Hamdani and a small group
of faculty volunteers established the Books for Baghdad
project in 2004 as an international humanitarian effort
to help reestablish the war-torn Baghdad University
library. Local volunteers were soon joined by faculty
and students from throughout the U.S. Thanks in part
to international media coverage, including special reports
on CNN, the project far exceeded its goal of 5,000 books
with a total collection of more than 11,000 textbooks
and $6,500 in school supplies.
The Baghdad Museum Project
The Baghdad Museum, or the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad,
has been looted, stripping it of a priceless collection
of cultural artifacts dating back to the dawn of civilization.
As you will see from the “museum walkthrough”
(available from the website), these are major historical
treasures not only for the Iraqi people but for all
humanity as well. How can we respond to this cultural
catastrophe? This is an opportunity to promote better
dialogue among our cultures. The Baghdad Museum Project
proposes a 4-part program to not only help save the
museum but also to bring about improved relations in
the international community. The goals are to: Establish
a comprehensive online catalog of all cultural artifacts
in the Baghdad Museum to help locate them, discourage
illegal dealing in these antiquities, and encourage
their safe return to the museum’s curators in
Baghdad; create a virtual Baghdad Museum, a content-rich
website–free to the general public–based
on the Baghdad Museum collection, in order to stimulate
cross-cultural appreciation and dialogue. We anticipate
that this site would feature the best search and navigation
tools, including interactive streaming video, GIS, 3D
navigation, and online classrooms; build a 3D collaborative
workspace within the virtual Baghdad Museum, to allow
international teams to work together on renovation designs,
exhibit layouts, and new building proposals for the
museum in Baghdad, as well as fundraising programs for
construction and events; and establish a resource center
for community cultural development within the virtual
Baghdad Museum, offering experiences, ideas and success
stories that show how people can contribute creatively
to their own culture, and thereby strengthen their historical
memory. For information and or to participate, contact:
John Simmons, Chairman, The Baghdad Museum Project (JohnSimmons@BaghdadMuseum.org;
BaghdadMuseum.org).
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Arabic Distance Learning Network
Seeking Institutional Participants
Montana State University-Bozeman is looking for institutions
that want to add Arabic language to their modern language
offerings to participate in an innovation project dubbed
the U.S. Arabic Distance Learning Network, which is
supported by the US Department of Education, Fund for
the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE).
The network offers a full two-year program of Arabic
language taught through a distance-learning approach
complemented by face-to-face instruction and an integrated
study abroad component for students who want to continue
their Arabic studies. Interested parties should contact
Yvonne Rudman (406 994-4032; rudman@montana.edu).
Dr. Norman Peterson will be attending the upcoming AIEA
conference and will be available to discuss the program
in more detail. For more information about the Network,
access: www.arabicstudies.edu.
U.S. Department of Education
Readers for Grant Programs
of the Office of Postsecondary Education (March
14, 2008)
The U.S. Department of Education seeks qualified individuals
interested in reviewing applications for grant programs
of the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE). These
reviewers (also called field readers, grant application
reviewers, grant readers, proposal readers, or peer
reviewers) will independently read and evaluate applications
submitted to the Department requesting federal funds.
Your application to become a field reader will be reviewed
by OPE staff to determine whether you have the subject
area expertise needed for upcoming competitions. In
addition to having subject area expertise, you must
be able to access the World Wide Web through Internet
Explorer 5.X or higher or Netscape 6.X or higher browsers
and be willing to commit a specified amount of time
to the review process, and complete and submit this
Field Reader Application Form. If selected as a field
reader for a specific grant program, you must establish
that you have no conflicts of interest. (Conflicts
of interest are described later in the registration
process.) Selected readers will be notified via email
so it is important to keep your contact information
current. All payments to readers will be made electronically;
therefore if you are selected as a reader you must
submit your social security number and banking information
prior to the reading. The Department is moving toward
an electronic grant review process. This includes the
electronic submission of grant applications; registration,
selection, notification, and training of field readers;
and the reading of applications. Most of the discretionary
grant programs in OPE have already incorporated some
aspects of the electronic grant review (e-grants) process.
For many of the electronic grant reviews, field readers
may no longer be required to travel to Washington,
D.C. for training; review and evaluation of grant applications;
completion and submission of technical review forms;
or meeting as a panel. Field readers will be asked
to complete their grant review duties online, via a
conference call, and/or via video conferencing. For
information, or to submit application, contact: U.S.
Department of Education, Field Reader System, 1990 "K" Street,
NW, Washington, DC 20006-8513 (ope.field.reader@cbmiweb.com; http://webprod.cbmiweb.com/edfrs/).
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