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IRAP meets with Christian refugee community in Jordan
As sectarian violence in Iraq escalated out of control, religious minorities were hit particularly hard. IRAP volunteers met with a community of Assyrian Christian refugees at a church service in Amman in 2010. Forced to flee Baghdad after their families were targeted and their churches were bombed, they were determined to preserve their unique community [...]
IRAP works with the University of Jordan Law School
During the winter of 2010, IRAP student leaders from Yale, Stanford, NYU and Columbia law schools traveled to Lebanon, Jordan and Syria to meet with Iraqi refugees, US and UN officials, NGOs, and Members of Parliament. One of the most important parts of the trip was a joint training with students from the University of [...]
Mohammed (Video Documentary)
In late 2007, armed extremists in Fallujah gave Yusra Kadhim and her husband Jamal a choice between divorce and death. A Shi’a Muslim, Yusra had thought little of marrying a Sunni in the years before the war. But now, with Iraq in a state of open sectarian conflict, her happy marriage had suddenly become a [...]
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