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Letters
of Understanding
Is Iraq Better Off Now?
This
is the second entry in the series American and Arab Youth Share
Ideas. In an e-mail-based dialogue, sponsored by IslamOnline.net’s
Muslim Affairs section, American student Evan Hays and
Iraqi-Palestinian student Khalid Jarrar reignite the debate on the
morality and necessity of the Iraq war and occupation, expressing
their opinions as to whether democracy is taking root in the
country.
(Click
here
to read our first student dialogue about the US role in Mideast
reform.)
Evan
L. Hays, 21, is a senior student at
Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is pursuing a history
major with a Bible minor. He grew up in the Washington D.C.
area and has traveled through Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and Jordan. In
the spring of 2005, during the Middle East Studies Program, he lived
in Cairo, where he studied the people, language, politics, history,
and faith of the Middle East, in addition to his studies on these
topics on his own and at his University.
Khalid
Jarrar, 23, is an Iraqi-Palestinian
student with a major in environmental engineering. He lived in Iraq
from July 1991 through July 2005 and has recently moved to Jordan.
Khalid maintains a blog, Secrets
in Baghdad,
where he writes about ordinary Iraqis and daily life in post-war
Iraq.
Click the parts below to read the e-mail exchange between Evan and Khalid:
Part
Five
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