A Message from Peter Friedrich, Head of Drama and Film.

Dear AUIS Students,

Eight months ago, playwright, scholar and Former Ambassador Akbar Ahmed gave AUIS students permission to perform his play, Noor, for the first time ever in the Middle East.

Can you believe it? Well, believe it, because beginning this Tuesday, the actors are ready. The technicians are ready. The play is ready. The only thing we need now is you.

WARNING: Noor deals with a struggling family during an American occupation. There is bad language, violence, religious arguments and conversations that are generally not for kids. In other words, it’s going to be fun, but not if you are easily offended.

You have a choice of attending 3 different performances!

NOOR IS COMING SOON!

The AUIS Noor Cast 

Photo by: Kait Taylor

by The Third Eye

On May 8, 10, 13, and15 the students of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani will have their performances of the play, Noor, in the Fine Arts Building on the new campus of Sulaimani University. 

Qaiwan Group of Companies Offer Students Financial Support

by The Third Eye

Qaiwan Group of Companies is one out of many other group of companies, that provides financial support for the students and needy ones.

Qaiwan has helped many AUIS students financially so far. Qaiwan has offered a large fair amount of money for those AUIS students who can’t afford their tuition and other fees.

AUIS Will be Offering another Minor

by The Third Eye

 The Middle East Studies minor will be offered soon based at AUIS. The most interesting part of that minor will be IST 3XX/HIS 301 Special Topics in Islamic Thought.  This is a ‘special topics’ course which students could take again as long as the topic as specified in the title AND as recorded and preserved in the registrar’s office was different.  In that way, different instructors could teach topics of their own interest, and it would provide students the opportunity to study a variety of topics.

Five Days in the Dead Sea...!

By Mahdi Kurdi

It was March 1st when I headed to the Erbil International Airport to fly to Jordan to attend a conference there. The Middle East Partnership Initiative Alumni Professional Conference was held in the Marriott Hotel in the Dead Sea in Jordan from March 1st, to march 5th.  The conference lasted for five days. The event was a reunion for about 90 students in the Middle East and North African countries who participated in the MEPI Undergraduate Leadership program in the U.S. during the summer 2011.

Shakespeare Iraq?

That's right. This project involves a group of Iraqi college students at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani who formed a Shakespearean company and are now invited to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This was not what anyone had in mind at first. What began as an appreciation-type club was quickly overrun by the students' passion for doing a live performance. Last June, they did it -- an English-language Shakespeare production, not on a campus or Green Zone, but in a public theater -- the first of its kind ever in the country.

Soon afterwards, I did a radio interview on Bob Scheer's Truthdigg radio. An Oregon Shakespeare Festival subscriber was listening, and before we knew it, we were offered a one-week slot OSF's Green Show.

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 It will take only a minute to help a child get rid of poverty!

A group of five members in the Kurdistan region of Iraq is participating in a competition to help thousands of children escape issues of poverty. It is YOU who can help those youths to achieve their dreams and rescue thousands of children from several difficulties they are facing today.

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به‌ ده‌نگێك هیچ له‌ ده‌ست نایه‌یت، به‌ڵام له‌وانه‌یه‌ بتوانی یارمه‌تی چه‌ندین مناڵی هه‌ژاری كورد و عێراقی به‌یت.

كۆمپانیایه‌كی جیهانی هه‌ستاوه‌ به‌ دابین كردنی 1 میلیۆن دۆلار بۆ مناڵانی هه‌ژار، ئه‌م گروپه‌ كورده‌ش كه‌ پێكهاتوون له‌ 5 كه‌س به‌و ڤیدیۆیه‌ به‌شدارن له‌ پێشبڕكێكه‌دا، ئه‌نجامه‌كه‌ی له‌سه‌ر ده‌نگ یانی ئێوه‌ وه‌ستاوه‌، ته‌نها لینكه‌كه‌ بكه‌ره‌وه‌ و كلیك به‌ له‌ 

به‌ ده‌نگێك هیچ له‌ ده‌ست نایه‌یت، به‌ڵام له‌وانه‌یه‌ بتوانی یارمه‌تی چه‌ندین مناڵی هه‌ژاری كورد و عێراقی به‌یت..

كۆمپانیایه‌كی جیهانی هه‌ستاوه‌ به‌ دابین كردنی 1 میلیۆن دۆلار بۆ مناڵانی هه‌ژار، ئه‌م گروپه‌ كورده‌ش كه‌ پێكهاتوون له‌ 5 كه‌س به‌و ڤیدیۆیه‌ به‌شدارن له‌ پێشبڕكێكه‌دا، ئه‌نجامه‌كه‌ی له‌سه‌ر ده‌نگ یانی ئێوه‌ وه‌ستاوه‌، ته‌نها لینكه‌كه‌ بكه‌ره‌وه‌ و كلیك به‌ له‌ 
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