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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Students at the Afghan Institute of Learning
 Today on Worldview we discuss the recent provincial elections in Iraq with Leila Fadel, McClatchy's Baghdad Bureau Chief. We also speak to Sakena Yacoobi, Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning and Katherine Pickus from the Abbott Fund on their work to provide teacher training to Afghan women.

 

 

 






 
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Implications of Iraq’s Provincial Elections  

Leila Fadel Baghdad bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers

and author of the blog, Baghdad Observer 

Advancing the Status of Women in Afghanistan  

Sakena Yacoobi — Founder and Executive Director of The Afghan Institute of Learning
Katherine Pickus — Divisional Vice President for Global Citizenship and Policy at Abbott; Vice President of the Abbott Fund 

 

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