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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.
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(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.
What do you think of this dialogue? Which argument do you support? E-mail us your comments: mideast@islamonline.net*
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